FYI, since this book was a topic of conversation back in the
fall. I'm just now reading it and enjoying it a great
deal.
Jonathan Lethem wins '99 National Book Critics Circle Book
Award for fiction
By Celia Mcgee
New York Daily News
Rising young New York writer Jonathan
Lethem won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Book Award
Monday night for fiction for his Doubleday novel "Motherless
Brooklyn."
The awards ceremony, held in front of a
overflow publishing crowd at NYU Law School, bestowed the
poetry award on the somewhat more senior, 84-year-old poet
Ruth Stone, for "Ordinary Words" from Paris Press.
General nonfiction went to Jonathan Weiner
for "Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for
the Origins of Behavior," published by Alfred Knopf; the late
Jorge Luis Borges' "Selected Nonfictions" brought the
criticism prize to Viking; and the biography winner was Henry
Wiencek for St. Martin's Press' "The Hairstons: An American
Family in Black and White."
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