Monday, May 7, 2012

June, July & August books


You be the judge - what book should have won the Pulitzer Prize for 2012!!!

June = Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
A novella about a day laborer in the old American West, bearing witness to terrors and glories with compassionate, heartbreaking calm.

July = Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (Alfred A. Knopf)
An adventure tale about an eccentric family adrift in its failing alligator-wrestling theme park, told by a 13-year-old heroine wise beyond her years.

August = The Pale King, by the late David Foster Wallace
A posthumously completed novel, animated by grand ambition, that explores boredom and bureaucracy in the American workplace.

1 comment:

barbara donaldson said...

I just placed my order with Indigo for these 3 books plus Galore. Total cost $58.67 with free shipping. Summer reading will be delivered to my door shortly.