![]() ![]() The intervening years have seen the digitisation of music and the mainstreaming of rebellion, and now the youth of tomorrow eschew piercings and tattoos. In punk-era San Francisco, teenagers in mohicans and safety pins take over from the greying hippies begging on street corners by the 2020s, in a postwar baby boom, the quest for the youth market and the ubiquity of mobile technology reaches its logical conclusion, with all pop songs directed at toddlers ("pointers", so called for the ease with which they download songs on their handsets). Ageing, loss and compromise are explored in all their universal predictability and piercing individuality: we're all getting a visit from the goon squad.Īppropriately enough, Jennifer Egan has set her novel in a milieu predicated both on nostalgia and the race for the next big thing: the music business. ![]() ![]() T ime is the goon in this sparkling novel of change and decay that ranges from the late 70s to the near future. ![]()
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