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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. New Directions is excited to reissue the Gardner classics, beginning with October Light , a complex relationship rendered in a down-to-earth narrative. October Light is one of John Gardner's masterworks. The penniless widow of a... read more
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- Peter Wagner: Add a description of this character.
- James L. Page
- Sally Abbott
- Lewis Hicks
- Ginny
- Horace Abbott
- Mr. Goodman
- John F. Alkahest
- Dickey
- Ruth Thomas
- Richard
- Estelle Moulds Parks
- Jane
- Lane Walker
- Mr. Nit
- William Lyon Phelps
- Terence Parks
- Samuel Denton Frost
- Ariah
- Flynn
- Margie Phelps
- Merton
- Dr. Berg
- William Peabody Partridge
- DeWitt Thomas
- Ethan Allen
- Henry Stumpchurch
- Leonard
- Wong Chop
- Graham
- Emily
- Sally Page Abbott
- Ferris Parks
- Albert
- Judah Sherbrooke
- Aunt Sally
- Luther Santisillia
- Captain Fist
- Rafe Hernandez
- Bea
- Mr. Fiorenzi
- Roger Bacon
- Uncle Ira
- Ed Thomas
- Morton
- Laurie
- Peg Ellis
- Odysseus
- Jedediah Dewey
- Walter Cronkite
- Dusky
- John G. McCullough
- Spinoza
- Beethoven
- Uncle Fred
- Grandma Moses
- Mrs. Waggoner
- John F. Kennedy
- Mr. Rockwell
- Cholly
- Ajax
- Kayoko Kodama
- Thomas Jefferson
- Dancer
- Sam Adams
- Benjamin Franklin
- Pearl Wilson
- William Shakespeare
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Awards edit
- National Book Critics Circle Award (1976: Fiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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