A Visit from the Goon Squad is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction by American author Jennifer Egan. The book is a set of thirteen interrelated...
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A goon squad is a group of people, often composed of hired criminals, detectives, or mercenaries, formed to intimidate and assault a specific group of...
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Jennifer Egan (category National Endowment for the Arts Fellows)
writer. Her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020...
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violence. Goon Squad may also refer to: Goon Squad (band), a dance music group assembled by Arthur Baker in the mid-1980s "Goon Squad", 1979 song from the Elvis...
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List of A24 programs (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Wilde, A24 Team on TV Adaptation of Jennifer Egan Novels 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' & 'The Candy House'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 22, 2023...
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is a sequel to Egan's 2010 novel A Visit From the Goon Squad. Many of the characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad return with an update to their stories...
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Black Box (short story) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Egan's Digital Archive: A Visit from the Goon Squad, Humanism, and the Digital Experience" (see section entitled "“Black Box” and the Digital Metafictional")...
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Demon Copperhead (category Use mdy dates from November 2022)
Demon Copperhead is a 2022 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It was a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and won the 2023 Women's Prize for...
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Michael London (category Use mdy dates from November 2013)
producer of the upcoming HBO adaptation of the novel A Visit From the Goon Squad. In 2013, Groundswell was scheduled to produce Mona for the studio New...
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Trust (novel) (section A Memoir, Remembered)
exclusive, with it being left up to the reader to determine the truth. Benjamin Rask is a prosperous American financier from a family of merchants-turned-financiers...
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by Theodore "Theo" Decker. As a thirteen-year-old boy, Theo's life is turned upside down when he and his mother visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art to...
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Postmodern literature (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011). These works also further develop the postmodern form. Sometimes the term "postmodernism" is...
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Epistolary novel (category Use dmy dates from October 2023)
Annie Barrows, is written as a series of letters and telegraphs sent and received by the protagonist. A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) by Jennifer Egan has...
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Lincoln (name) (category Incomplete lists from February 2016)
a character in A Visit from the Goon Squad Lincoln Clay, the main protagonist in the video game Mafia III Lincoln Loud, the main protagonist in The Loud...
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Fix-up (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
by Tim Lucas Haunted (2005) by Chuck Palahniuk A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) by Jennifer Egan The Seven Wonders (2012) by Steven Saylor Novels portal...
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Salazar (surname) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Salazar, a central character and record company executive from the book A Visit From the Goon Squad Daniel Salazar, a main character in Fear The Walking...
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Middlebrow (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Bad, Mad Men, The Sopranos and The Wire and novels Freedom, The Marriage Plot and A Visit from the Goon Squad. Slate also defines the films of Aaron...
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Nonlinear narrative (category Articles with dead external links from April 2020)
Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus (2011) Will Self's Umbrella (2012) Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot...
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Olive Kitteridge (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
lymphoma. Dr. Kevin Coulson – returns from New York to commit suicide, impulse interrupted by a visit with Olive and a near drowning. Bessie Davis – old maid...
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Microsoft PowerPoint (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
with world powers are now public. Egan, Jennifer (2010). A Visit from the Goon Squad. Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 176–251. ISBN 978-0-307-59283-5. Stark, David;...
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (redirect from Pulitzer Prize for the Novel)
usually a total of three. As defined in the original Plan of Award, the prize was given "Annually, for the American novel published during the year which...
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List of postmodern novels (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Russell A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) by Jennifer Egan The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes The Angel Esmeralda (2011) by Don Delillo The Paper...
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Short story cycle (section The composite novel)
to create a composite novel. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain A Hero of Our Time A Sportsman's Sketches A Visit From the Goon Squad A Young Doctor's...
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Hernan Diaz (writer) (category Argentine emigrants to the United States)
novel In the Distance was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He also received a Whiting Award...
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V. Watkins' is heavily based on the real person; his dialogue during the characters visit to Congress is pulled from actual transcriptions. Vernon and...
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with Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad) in a list by Literary Hub. The novel has received a number of awards, including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize...
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The Goon Show is a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats...
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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (category 1981 establishments in the United States)
citizens. The winner receives US$15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US$5000. Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great...
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Constable & Robinson (redirect from A. Constable and Company)
purchased by the Little, Brown Book Group. In 2011, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, published under the Corsair imprint in the UK, won the Pulitzer...
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International Dublin Literary Award (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
provided the work has been published in English or English translation. The presentation of the award is post-dated by two years from the date of publication...
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