{"id":2751,"date":"2010-11-18T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T15:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2010-11-18T10:29:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T15:29:29","slug":"the-national-book-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=2751","title":{"rendered":"The National Book Award Winners…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWinner of the award for fiction, Jaimy Gordon was caught off guard by her win at the National Book Awards ceremony. Click here<\/a> for more information on the event and awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Fiction<\/h2>\n

Lord of Misrule – <\/em>Jaimy Gordon
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At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters — scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain — through a year and four races at Indian Mound Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Nonfiction<\/h2>\n

Just Kids ~ Patti Smith<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.<\/p>\n

Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max’s Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous\u2014the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n

Lighthead ~ Terrence Hayes<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta\u00adtion format. This innovative collection presents the light- headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Young People’s Literature<\/h2>\n

Mockingbird ~ Kathryn Erskine<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

In Caitlin’s world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That’s the stuff Caitlin’s older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon’s dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger’s, she doesn’t know how. When she reads the definition of closure, she realizes that is what she needs. In her search for it, Caitlin discovers that not everything is black and white\u2014the world is full of colors\u2014messy and beautiful.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Excerpts taken from Barnes and Noble product descriptions<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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