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Posts Tagged ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’
Books Make Great Gifts: For The Literature Lover
Attractive, smart, thoughtful, unique, and easy to wrap—books are the perfect gifts. In honor of the holiday season, we’ve put together a series of thematic gift guides that will help you pick the perfect book for everyone on your list. We begin today with great picks for the literature fans in your life. From award-winners to movie tie-ins to reading group favorites, you’ll find something here to satisfy the most discerning readers.
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A Visit From the Goon Squad Wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad has been awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In their citation, the judges called the novel “an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.”
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How Jennifer Egan Put The Goon Squad Together
In this exclusive essay, Jennifer Egan tells us how and why she created A Visit From the Goon Squad’s unusual structure—and why it is that she writes fiction at all.
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Jennifer Egan Makes a Literary (Power)Point
In her moving and hilarious new novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan gives her readers plenty to talk about. There’s a host of wonderful characters, well-observed settings, and a great deal of creative storytelling. One of the most inventive elements of the book is a chapter told entirely in PowerPoint slides. Egan’s narrative flair gives the stodgy Office tool a brand new lease on life. Read on to see the PowerPoint in action!
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Jennifer Egan’s Visit From the Goon Squad Takes NBCC Fiction Award
The National Book Critics Circle has announced that Jennifer Egan’s novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, has been awarded their 2010 prize for fiction. Egan accepted the award at a ceremony at the New School on March 10th.
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Jennifer Egan and Jaimy Gordon Nominated for 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award
Judges for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction have selected their nominees for the 2011 prize. Among those in contention are Jennifer Egan for A Visit From the Goon Squad and Jaimy Gordon for Lord of Misrule.
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Our Notable Books of 2010
The New York Times Book Review’s list of Notable Books of 2010 is out, and we’re happy to have made the list. Click through for our noted titles.
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The Soundtrack to A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan put together this awesome playlist to accompany her powerful new novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. Check out the track list and then head over to Knopf Doubleday’s 8tracks page to listen to the songs.
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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa.
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