Jennifer Egan

Goon Squad

1 - A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jun-2010)
2 - The Candy House (Apr-2022)

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  The Invisible Circus
  

  • Jan-1996
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  The highly acclaimed debut novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Good Squad follows two sisters in the 1970s -- one lost, one seeking -- on "a trip that takes the reader through stunning emotional terrain" (The New York...

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  Emerald City
  

  • Mar-1997
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  A collection of masterful stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad: “Boldly modulated tales of displacement and blazing moments of truth.... Riveting, vaguely Hitchcockian.... Piercingly tender.... Outstandi...

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  Look at Me
  

  • Oct-2002
  • / General Fiction
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  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown wit...

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  The Keep
  

  • Aug-2006
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  Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep -- the tower, the last stand -- is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. T...

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  A Visit from the Goon Squad
  

  • Jun-2010
  • / Literary
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  Goon Squad - 1
  

  Jennifer Egans 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 others...

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  Cookies and Cake & the Families We Make
  

  • Dec-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  Cookies and Cake & The Families We Make is a children's book about exposure and acceptance of the diverse families that are part of our society: single parents, multicultural parents, two moms, two dads, one of each or even an unrelated guardian. Tho...

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  Jack the Brave Conquers the Snow
  

  • Sep-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  Jack has sensory processing disorder and experiences life differently. Jack visits his Grandparents cabin and learns to like the snow. He gets encouragement from different family members and learns to be brave, in order to join in and make a snowman ...

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  The Best American Short Stories 2014
  

  • Oct-2014
  • / General Fiction
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  The Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as ...

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  Why China?
  

  • May-2016
  • / General Fiction
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  A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   Sam Lafferty has hit bottom. Under investigation and on leave from the financial services firm that employed him, Sam has uprooted his wife and two daughters and dragged them against their wil...

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  Manhattan Beach
  

  • Oct-2017
  • / Historical
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  Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between t...

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  Emerald City and Other Stories
  

  • Sep-2021
  • / General Fiction
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  The Candy House
  

  • Apr-2022
  • / Psychological Suspense
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  Goon Squad - 2
  

  From one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a “sibling novel” to her Pulitzer Prize- and ​NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad -- an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for au...

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Award-Winning Books by Jennifer Egan

Manhattan Beach
2018 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence -- Fiction
A Visit from the Goon Squad
2010 L.A. Times Book Prize -- Fiction
2010 National Book Critics Circle Award -- Fiction
2011 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction