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Jennifer Egan has become known for her genre-bending, time-traveling, inventive fiction. Her 2010 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel “A Visit from the Goon Squad” was hailed as a creative work of metafiction, incorporating multiple points of view, with one chapter told entirely in PowerPoint and another set far in the future. In 2012, her science-fiction short story “Black Box” was released in 140-character installments on Twitter.
Her new book, “Manhattan Beach,” thus comes as something of a surprise. It’s a more traditional…