A Visit from The Goon Squad
American novelist, born 1962. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011.
A Visit from The Goon Squad is a 2010 novel in stories by Jennifer Egan. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011.
On 3 of the 14 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Jennifer Egan
- First published
- 2010
- Length
- 368 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, 2011
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Postmodern
Is A Visit from The Goon Squad worth reading?
3 of the 14 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (winners and finalists) (Columbia University, 2011) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian, 2019) | No. 24 | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The New York Times, 2024) | No. 39 | See the list |
Best edition of A Visit from The Goon Squad
The edition we link to is the Corsair paperback (2011), 368 pages.
- Publisher
- Corsair (paperback, 2011)
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9781780330969
How critics, prizes and readers rate A Visit from The Goon Squad
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 44% of the points available on critics' lists, against 25% on prize lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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