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THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS - 2005 |
| Pulitzer Prize |
| Man Booker Prize |
| The National Book Awards |
| The Audie Awards |
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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: De Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens,Annalyn Swan Gossipier than any tabloid, as scholarly as Vasari, luminously illustrated and illuminating as a lightning bolt, Stevens` and Swan`s landmark biography is one of the most stunning art books I`ve seen in seven years of Amazon.com reviewing--a masterpiece that explains how the Dutchman de Kooning became the master painter of the American century. It`s a page-turning tale: raised by a mom who beat him with wooden shoes, de Kooning escaped Rotterdam as a stowaway on a freighter and found a second family in New York`s rampageous art bohemia. He subsisted on ketchup and booze, and broke through around 1950 with dazzling abstract expressionist canvases inspired by what was in the air: cubism, surrealism, jazz, and film noir. The careerist thing t... Read more... |
| Drama: Doubt by John Patrick Shanley Read more... |
| Fiction: Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson In 1981, Marilynne Robinson wrote Housekeeping, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and became a modern classic. Since then, she has written two pieces of nonfiction: Mother Country and The Death of Adam. With Gilead, we have, at last, another work of fiction. As with The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzards`s return, 22 years after The Transit of Venus, it was worth the long wait. Books such as these take time, and thought, and a certain kind of genius. There are no invidious comparisons to be made. Robinson`s books are unalike in every way but one: the same incisive thought and careful prose illuminate both.A major new novel from the author of Housekeeping. Read more... |
| General NonFiction: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, ... by Steve Coll Steve Coll`s Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 offers revealing details of the CIA`s involvement in the evolution of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the years before the September 11 attacks. From the beginning, Coll shows how the CIA`s on-again, off-again engagement with Afghanistan after the end of the Soviet war left officials at Langley with inadequate resources and intelligence to appreciate the emerging power of the Taliban. He also demonstrates how Afghanistan became a deadly playing field for international politics where Soviet, Pakistani, and U.S. agents armed and trained a succession of warring factions. At the same time, the book, though opinio... Read more... |
| History: Washington`s Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American His... by David Hackett Fischer Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. George Washington lost ninety percent of his army and was driven acrosscompatriots not only saved the faltering American Revolution, but helped to give it new meaning, in a pivotal moment for American history. Read more... |
| Poetry: Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser Read more... |
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