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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerMaking WavesMario Vargas LlosaSpanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations on the Cuban Revolution, Latin America...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistGod and the American WriterAlfred KazinAmazonThe Art of Shakespeare’s SonnetsHelen VendlerAmazonThe End of the Novel of LoveVivian GornickAmazonThe Pleasures of the ImaginationJohn BrewerAmazon

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Blue FlowerPenelope FitzgeraldPresents a fictionalized account of the relationship between the eighteenth-century German poet known as Novalis and his true love, Sophie...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistAmerican PastoralPhilip RothAmazonCold MountainCharles FrazierAmazonDreams of My Russian SummersAndrei MakineAmazonUnderworldDon DeLilloAmazon

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall DownAnne FadimanA study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes into conflict with doctors' methods....Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAmerican ScripturePauline MaierAmazonHow the Mind WorksStephen PinkerAmazonInto Thin AirJon KrakauerAmazonThe Bible as It WasJames KugelAmazon

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerBlack ZodiacCharles WrightWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistDesireFrank BidartAmazonDoes Your House Have Lions?Sonya SanchezAmazonLoose SugarBrenda HillmanAmazonQuestions for EcclesiastesMark JarmanAmazon

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1997 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 Nebula - Novel WinnerSlow RiverNicola GriffithLore van de Oest awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. She had been the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families ... and now she was nobody. ...Amazon1997 Nebula - Novel ShortlistExpiration DateTim PowersAmazonStarplexRobert J. SawyerAmazonThe Diamond AgeNeal StephensonAmazonThe Silent Strength of StonesNina Kiriki HoffmanAmazonWinter RosePatricia A. McKillipAmazon

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

1997 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerThe Time ShipsStephen BaxterThe highly-acclaimed sequel to H G Wells's The Time Machine, from the heir to Arthur C. Clarke....Amazon1997 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistAt the City Limits of FateMichael BishopAmazonReclamationSarah ZettelAmazonThe ShiftGeorge FoyAmazonThe Transmigration of SoulsWilliam BartonAmazon

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1997 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1997 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerAngela's Ashes: A MemoirFrank McCourtA Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland. “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: th...Amazon1997 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistMornings on HorsebackDavid McCulloughAmazonThe Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880–1918Patricia O'TooleAmazonWhittaker Chambers: A BiographySam TanenhausAmazon

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1997 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1997 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Tale of an American DreamerSteven Millhauser Martin DresslerYoung Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldl...Amazon1997 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistThe ManikinJoanna ScottAmazonUnlocking the Air and Other StoriesUrsula K. Le GuinAmazon

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1997 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1997 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerAshes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisRichard KlugerNo book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail. Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexitie...Amazon1997 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistFame and FollyCynthia OzickAmazonThe Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and BeyondSamuel G. FreedmanAmazon

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1997 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1997 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerOriginal Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the ConstitutionJack N. RakoveFrom abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from incept...Amazon1997 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistFounding Mothers and FathersMary Beth NortonAmazonThe Battle for ChristmasStephen NissenbaumAmazon