Вручение ноябрь 1987 г.

Страна: США Место проведения: город Нью-Йорк Дата проведения: ноябрь 1987 г.

Художественная проза

Лауреат
Ларри Хайнеманн 0.0
Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the US with his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of what to do next. One evening, on the tail of a rainstorm, he limps off the bus and into the small town of Boone, determined to find a real job and a real bed–but no matter how hard he works, nothing muffles the anguish in his mind and body. Brilliantly and vividly written, Paco’s Story–winner of a National Book Award–plunges you into the violence and casual cruelty of the Vietnam War, and the ghostly aftermath that often dealt the harshest blows.
Элис Макдермот 0.0
On a warm suburban night, the sound of lawn sprinklers is drowned out by the rumble of hot rods. Suddenly a car careens onto a family’s neat front yard, teenage boys spill out brandishing chains and leather, and a young man cries out for the girl he loves. Tonight fathers will pick up snow shovels and rakes to defend their turf, and children will witness a battle fueled by fierce, true love. This is the night they will talk about and remember as the moment everything changed forever.
Тони Моррисон 3.9
«Возлюбленная» – самый знаменитый роман Тони Моррисон, удостоенный Пулитцеровской (1988), а затем и Нобелевской премии (1993). Это удивительная история чернокожей рабыни Сэти, решившейся на страшный поступок – подарить свободу, но забрать жизнь. Роман о том, как трудно порой бывает вырвать из сердца память о прошлом, о сложном выборе, меняющем судьбу, и людях, которые навсегда остаются любимыми.
Филип Рот 3.2
Воспользовавшись своим художественным даром, известный писатель Натан Цукерман меняется судьбой с младшим братом Генри, искажая реальность и стирая связи между жизнью настоящей и вымышленной.

Документальная книга

Лауреат
Richard Rhodes 4.7
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan.

Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began as merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the Bomb with frightening rapidity, while scientists known only to their peers -- Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and yon Neumann -- stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight.

Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step by step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitive story of man's most awesome discovery and invention.