| "The National Book Awards are the most keenly anticipated of all American literary prizes. Interestingly, winning the award is not necessarily a guarantee of popularity! Many short listed book have proved more popular than the winners. Just goes to show, the High -Brow Literocracy may hand out their edict, but we, the People, will always have the final say. I started the list from 1975 as that was the year that I came into USA National Book Award consciousness. Quite bizarre in hindsight as I was living in a working class town in England. Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone was my first National read. Funny old world. The question that I would like to pose is - Where Are They Now? How many winners have stood the test of time? How many of them can we bring back into memory? .." | ||
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| Shadow Country (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Peter Matthiessen $10.88 | Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson $10.88 | The Echo Maker: A Novel
by Richard Powers $10.20 |
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| Europe Central
by William Vollmann $12.24 | The News from Paraguay: A Novel
by Lily Tuck | The Great Fire: A Novel
by Shirley Hazzard $11.20 |
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| Three Junes
by Julia Glass $10.17 | The Corrections: A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen $10.88 | In America: A Novel
by Susan Sontag $10.20 |
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National Fiction Winners 1975 -2008
