Tuesday, November 07, 2006

best American work of fiction?

In the last 25 years? The New York Times Magazine said:

The Winner:

  • Beloved Toni Morrison (1987)
The Runners-Up:
  • Underworld Don DeLillo (1997)
  • Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy (1985)
  • Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels John Updike (1995)
  • American Pastoral Philip Roth (1997)
The following books also received multiple votes:
  • A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole (1980)
  • Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson (1980)...and others

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