1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner

Billy Bathgate
E. L. Doctorow
I was living in even greater circles of gangsterdom than I had dreamed, latitudes and longitudes of gangsterdom’ It’s 1930’s New York and fifteen-year-old streetkid Billy, who can juggle, somersault and run like the wind, has been taken under the wing of …
1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Shortlist

Ordinary Love & Good Will
Jane Smiley

Spartina
John Casey

The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
