National Book Award Winners (Fiction)
Cold Mountain
by Charles FrazierPublished: 1998
Paperback : 464 pages
Paperback : 464 pages
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Winner - 1998 ABBY Award
"Cold Mountain" is a magnificent love story in the tradition of Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms", and a breathtaking account of one man's voyage home from the front at the end of the Civil War. Epic in sweep and heartbreakingly told, this is the rarest of ...
"Cold Mountain" is a magnificent love story in the tradition of Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms", and a breathtaking account of one man's voyage home from the front at the end of the Civil War. Epic in sweep and heartbreakingly told, this is the rarest of ...
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Ship Fever: Stories
by Andrea BarrettPublished: 1996-11-17
Paperback : 256 pages
Paperback : 256 pages
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1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as ...
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Sabbath's Theater
by Philip RothPublished: 1996-08-06
Paperback : 464 pages
Paperback : 464 pages
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Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress—an erotic free ...
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A Frolic of His Own
by William GaddisPublished: 1995-02-10
Paperback : 512 pages
Paperback : 512 pages
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A dazzling fourth novel by the author of The Recognitions, Carpenter's Gothic, and JR uses his considerable powers of observation and satirical sensibilities to take on the American legal system. Reprint. 30, 000 first printing.
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The Shipping News
by E. Annie ProulxPublished: 1994
Paperback : 352 pages
Paperback : 352 pages
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.
Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as ...
Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as ...
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All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthyPublished: 1993-06-29
Paperback : 301 pages
Paperback : 301 pages
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The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two ...
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Mating: A Novel
by Norman RushPublished: 1992-09-01
Paperback : 496 pages
Paperback : 496 pages
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The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a good waist, and a busted thesis project. She also has a yen for Nelson Denoon, a ...
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Middle Passage
by Charles JohnsonPublished: 1998-07-01
Paperback : 209 pages
Paperback : 209 pages
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A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece—"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review)—now with a new introduction from Stanley ...
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Spartina
by John CaseyPublished: 1998-04-28
Paperback : 375 pages
Paperback : 375 pages
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Winner of the 1989 National Book Award
A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible ...
A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible ...
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Paris Trout (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Pete DexterPublished: 1989-08-01
Paperback : 320 pages
Paperback : 320 pages
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Pete Dexter’s National Book Award–winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town.
The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a ...
The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a ...
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