1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner

The Counterlife
Philip Roth
The Counterlife is a novel unlike any that Philip Roth has written before, a book of astonishing 180-degree turns, a book of conflicting perspectives and points of view, and, by far, Roth’s most radical work of fiction. The Counterlife is about people enac…
1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Shortlist

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner

The Age of Grief
Jane Smiley
