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THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS - 1997 |
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| Annual awards by Columbia University. Prizes in Letters are for books published in the US - fiction, biography, general non-fiction, history and poetry. |
| Biography: Angela`s Ashes by Frank McCourt "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela`s Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America. It turns out that prospects weren`t so great back in the old country either--not with Malachy for a father. A chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic, he appears to be the model on which many of our more insulting cliches about drunken Irish manhood are based. Mix in abject poverty and frequen... Read more... |
| Fiction: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Vint... by Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler is a turn-of-the-century New York City entrepreneur who begins in his father`s cigar store but dreams of a bigger empire. That dream shapes into a series of large hotels. At first, Dressler`s seems the archetypal American success story, but he does not quite grasp the future. The Manhattan of fabled skyline is about to take shape just over the horizon, but Dressler cannot see it. So the story becomes another kind of fable, as Dressler contemplates having "dreamed the wrong dream."Young 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 o... Read more... |
| General NonFiction: Ashes to Ashes: America`s Hundred-Year Ciga... by Richard Kluger No 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.Dealing with an emotional subject that has generated more heat than light, this book is a dispassionate tour de force that examines the nature of the companies` culpability, the complicity of society as a whole, and the shaky moral ground claimed by smokers who are now demanding recompense Read more... |
| History: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of... by Jack N. Rakove Imagine, for a preposterous moment, that 55 national leaders convened to write a document to guide the country for hundreds of years. It seems unlikely--given that our current contingent of so-called leaders can`t agree on how to balance a checkbook--that they could reach consensus on such issues as the allotment of congressional seats. The political and ideological issues that faced the creators of the Constitution were similar in some ways to those at play today. And in some ways they were vastly different ones. Jack Rakove, a history professor at Stanford University, has in this book framed the process that led to the drafting of the constitution in its historical and political context to offer insight into the difficulty of interpreting... Read more... |
| Poetry: Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller Practical Gods is the eighth collection by Carl Dennis, a critically acclaimed poet and recent winner of one of the most prestigious poetry awards, the Ruth Lilly Prize. Carl Dennis has won acclaim for "wise, original, and often deeply moving" poems that "ease the reader out of accustomed modes of seeing and perceiving" (The New York Times). Many of the poems in this new book involve an attempt to enter into dialogue with pagan and biblical perspectives, to throw light on ordinary experience through metaphor borrowed from religious myth and to translate religious myth into secular terms. While making no claims to put us in touch with some ultimate reality, these clear, precise, sensitive poems help us to pay homage to the ever... Read more... |
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