1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

Ironweed

William Kennedy

The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Francis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after …

Cathedral

Raymond Carver

During the Reign of the Queen

Joan Chase

Magnetic Field (s)

Ron Loewinsohn

The Anatomy Lesson

Philip Roth