1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner
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The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald
Presents a fictionalized account of the relationship between the eighteenth-century German poet known as Novalis and his true love, Sophie…
1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Shortlist
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
Dreams of My Russian Summers
Andrei Makine
