Category: Pulitzer Prize Winners

When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just deserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons -- and the unpredictable forces of nature and society -- he begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, "The Shipping News" shows why Annie Proulx is recognized as one ...
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The Shipping News (Pulitzer Prize)

By: E Annie Proulx

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Scribner: 1994

Seller ID: 0030461

ISBN: 0671510053

Condition: Good

When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons -- and the unpredictable forces of nature and society -- he begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, "The Shipping News" shows why Annie Proulx is recognized as one...
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The Age of Innocence (Pulitzer Winner)

By: Edith Wharton

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Premier Classics: 1993

Seller ID: 0130753

ISBN: 0307291685

Condition: Good

Angela's Ashes (Pulitzer Prize)

By: Frank McCourt

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Touchstone books: 1996

Seller ID: 0034362

ISBN: 0684872153

Condition: Fair

Frank McCourt's haunting memoir takes on new life when the author reads from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Recounting scenes from his childhood in New York City and Limerick, Ireland, McCourt paints a brutal yet poignant picture of his early days when there was rarely enough food on the table, and boots and coats were a luxury. In a melodic Irish voice that often lends a gentle humor to the unimaginable, the author remembers his wayward yet adoring father who was forever drinking what little money the family had. He recounts the painful loss of his siblings to avoidable sickness and hunger,...
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Angela's Ashes (Pulitzer Prize)

By: Frank McCourt

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Scribner: 1996

Seller ID: 0061386

ISBN: 0684874350

Condition: Good

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To Kill A Mockingbird (Pulitzer Prize)

By: Harper Lee

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Popular Library: 1977

Seller ID: 0041463

ISBN: 044508376X

Condition: Fair

Middlesex (Pulitzer Prize)

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Vintage Canada: 2003

Seller ID: 0051936

ISBN: 0676975658

Condition: Good

The first words of Jeffrey Eugenides exuberant and capacious novel Middlesex""take us right to the heart of its unique narrator: "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."""Middlesex is the story of Cal or Calliope Stephanides, a comic epic of a family's American life, and the expansive history of a gene travelling down through time, starting with a rare genetic mutation. In 1922, Desdemona and Eleutherios ("Lefty") Stephanides, bro...
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The Rising Sun (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: John Toland

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam: 1970

Seller ID: 0084222

Condition: Good

Rabbit Is Rich / Rabbit At Rest (Pulitzer Prize)

By: John Updike

Price: $14.48

Publisher: Ballintine: 2003

Seller ID: 0138597

ISBN: 0345464575

Condition: Good

"The third and fourth novel in John Updike's acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume."RABBIT IS RICHWinner of the American Book Award andthe National Book Critics Circle Award "Dazzlingly reaffirms Updike's place as master chronicler of the spiritual maladies and very earthly pleasure of the Middle-American male."-"Vogue ""A splendid achievement "-"The New York Times "RABBIT AT RESTWinner of the Pulitzer Prize andthe National Book Critics Circle Award "Brilliant . . . It must be read. It is the best novel about America t...
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The Hours [Pulitzer Prize]

By: Michael Cunningham

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Picador: 1998

Seller ID: 0068769

ISBN: 0312243022

Condition: Good

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of "A Home at the End of the World "and "Flesh and Blood." In "The Hours," Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and...
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The Hours [Pulitzer Prize]

By: Michael Cunningham

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Picador: 2002

Seller ID: 0056055

ISBN: 0312305060

Condition: Good

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare "The Hours" tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of...
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American Pastoral (Pulitzer Prize)

By: Philip Roth

Price: $11.48

Publisher: Vintage: 1997

Seller ID: 0127372

ISBN: 0375701427

Condition: Good

As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, qui...
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The Making Of The President 1960 (Pulitzer Prize)

By: Theodore H White

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Pocket: 1962

Seller ID: 0107634

Condition: Good

The Making Of The President 1960 (Pulitzer Prize)

By: Theodore H White

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Pocket: 1965

Seller ID: 0141859

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Category: Pulitzer Prize Winners