Вручение ноябрь 1998 г.
Страна: США
Место проведения: город Нью-Йорк
Дата проведения: ноябрь 1998 г.
Художественная проза
Лауреат
Элис Макдермот
0.0
Alice McDermott tells the story of Billy Lynch within the complex matrix of a tightly knit Irish American community, in a voice that is resonant and full of deep feeling. Charming Billy is a masterpiece about the unbreakable bonds of memory and desire.
Charming Billy is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction.
Роберт Стоун
3.6
Журналист Кристофер Лукас получает заказ на книгу о так называемом Иерусалимском синдроме — виде мании величия, при котором паломнику мнится, что он владеет божественными силами, что на него возложена пророческая миссия по спасению мира. А на пороге нового тысячелетия Иерусалим стал полем битвы за возвращение святынь — битвы, в которой участвуют ортодоксы всех религий, самозваные мессии, разномастные спецслужбы и даже суфийские дервиши. Игра в кошки-мышки в подземном лабиринте и хитросплетение заговоров, гонки по охваченным мятежом улицам и бред любовного очарования — еще не известно, что опаснее для души и тела в вечном городе…
Том Вулф
4.1
Роман Тома Вулфа "Мужчина в полный рост" - книга, в которой присутствует множество смысловых плоскостей, показано множество разных характеров. В "такую же эру, как наша", т.е. в конце двадцатого века, когда "деньги решают все", Вулф показывает, насколько относительно подобное утверждение.
Чарли Крокер, шестидесятилетний магнат, один из крупнейших в Атланте застройщиков, внезапно попадает в тяжелую ситуацию, из которой, кажется, нет никакого выхода: он должен либо лишиться всего имущества, либо пойти на сделку со своей совестью и утратить уважение старых друзей…
Allegra Goodman
0.0
In the summer of '76, the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill, the tiny town in upstate New York where Orthodox Jews and Yankee year-rounders live side by side from June through August.
Elizabeth Shulman, a devout follower of Rav Elijah Kirshner and the mother of five daughters, is restless. She needs a project of her own, outside her family and her cloistered community.
Across the street, Andras Melish is drawn to Kaaterskill by his adoring older sisters, bound to him by their loss and wrenching escape from the Holocaust. Both comforted and crippled by his sisters' love, Andras cannot overcome the ambivalence he feels toward his children and his own beautiful wife.
At the top of the hill, Rav Kirshner is coming to the end of his life, and he struggles to decide which of his sons should succeed him: the pious but stolid Isaiah, or the brilliant but worldly Jeremy.
Behind the scenes, alarmed as his beloved Kaaterskill is overdeveloped by Michael King, the local real estate broker, Judge Miles Taylor keeps an old secret in check, biding his time....
Гейл Джонс
4.0
Gayl Jones's special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant, The New Republic
Gayl Jones's first novel, Corregidora, won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping, subtle, and sure. It was praised, along with her second novel, Eva's Man, by writers and critics from all over the nation: John Updike, Maya Angelou, John Edgar Wideman, and James Baldwin, to name a few. The publication of The Healing, her first novel in over twenty years, is a literary event.
Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, traveling by bus to small towns, converting skeptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a minor rock star's manager, and before that a beautician. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and an Afro-German horse dealer; along the way she's somehow lost her own husband, a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards, drawing us constantly deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale-the story of her first healing.
The Healing is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan's memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of the black Southerner, Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic-and unexpected-beginning.
Литература для детей и юношества
Лауреат
Луис Сашар
4.4
Что связывает неловкого подростка Стенли Илнетса, несправедливо обвиненного в краже, знаменитую разбойницу Целующую Кейт Барлоу, промышлявшую грабежом больше ста лет назад, прославленного бейсболиста Клайда Ливингстона, страдающего от потливости ног, и старуху-цыганку, жившую когда-то на окраине латышского села? А главное - зачем Стенли заставляют бесконечно копать ямы в пустыне?
"Ямы" - это увлекательный роман, в котором современность тесно переплетена с событиями столетней давности. А любовь, предательство, страх и надежда оказываются теми нитями, которые надежно связывают судьбы разных поколений.
Поэзия
Лауреат
Джеральд Стерн
0.0
"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why did it take so long / for me to get lenient? What does it mean one life / only?' " — Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Gerald Stern's achievement is immense. In this beautiful gathering . . . one encounters a poet who praises and mourns in turn and even at once." — Grace Schulman, The Nation "Stern is one of those rare poetic souls who makes it almost impossible to remember what our world was like before his poetry came to exalt it." — C. K. Williams
Документальная книга
Лауреат
Edward Ball
0.0
Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning families in the South, discovered that his ancestors owned 25 plantations, worked by nearly 4,000 slaves.
Through meticulous research and by interviewing scattered relatives, Ball contacted some 100,000 African-Americans who are all descendants of Ball slaves. In intimate conversations with them, he garnered information, hard words, and devastating family stories of precisely what it means to be enslaved. He found that the family plantation owners were far from benevolent patriarchs; instead there is a dark history of exploitation, interbreeding, and extreme violence.
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