1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner

The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald
Presents a fictionalized account of the relationship between the eighteenth-century German poet known as Novalis and his true love, Sophie…
1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Shortlist

American Pastoral
Philip Roth

Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier

Dreams of My Russian Summers
Andrei Makine
