National Book Critics Circle award winners

[Judy]

Thank you for introducing me to Jim Crace.  I read "Quarantine" on your
recommendation and just finished "Being Dead".  Just as you said, he is well
worth reading.

-Judy

From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 8:53 PM
Subject: National Book Critics Circle award winners


> National Book Critics Circle Round Up Award Winners
>
> The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its annual book
> awards in New York City last night.
>
> The winners in each of the five categories are as follows:
>
> Fiction: Being Dead by Jim Crace (Picador, $12)
> General Nonfiction: Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover (Random,
> $24.95)
> Biography/Autobiography: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by
Herbert
> P. Bix (HarperCollins, $35)
> Poetry: Carolina Ghost Woods by Judy Jordan (Louisiana State University
> Press, $22.95)
> Criticism: Quarrel & Quandary by Cynthia Ozick (Knopf, $25)
>
> from PW Daily
>
> ...I haven't read Being Dead, but I read an earlier novel by Crace
> called Quarantine, and highly recommend it. It's a fictionalized
> treatment of Jesus' 40 days in the desert and temptation by the
> devil, from a secular point of view.
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