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Ironweed
 

Ironweed

by William Kennedy

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now a movie directed by Hector Babenco ( Kiss of the Spider Woman) starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, a man trying to make peace with the ghosts of his past and present. 8 pages of photos. (read review)

Top tags: fiction,  pulitzer prize,  20th century,  historical fiction,  novel (all tags)

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Pulitzer Prize winners 55 books / 146 members / 89 posts This group is for those who love books that have won the Pulizer for Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Non-Fiction, Biography, History, or Drama.
New York State of Mind 172 books / 71 members / 135 posts A group for books set in New York (city or state), written by New Yorkers, or books that capture the essence of this geographic and cultural area. Fiction, Non-fiction or short stories. The possibilities are endless...
Editors' Choice 1983 12 books / 1 members / 0 posts NY Times annual list of best books.
Random House - Top 100 Books of the 20th Century (Board's List) 51 books / 1 members / 0 posts 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century, as determined by the board. From Random House:

"The goal of the "100 Best" project was to get people talking about great books. We succeeded beyond our wildest imaginings -- more than 400,000 avid readers rushed online to cast votes for their favorite books and the students of the Radcliffe Publishing Course quickly responded with rival list of 100 Best Novels.

The reader's poll for the best nonfiction published in the English language since 1900 opened on April 29, 1999 and closed on September 30, 1999 with a total of 194,829 votes cast.

The readers' poll for the best novels published in the English language since 1900 opened on July 20, 1998 and closed on October 20, 1998, with 217,520 votes cast."
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