![]() ![]() ![]() Such an animal is Olive Kitteridge, the heroine of Strout’s eponymous follow-up to her justly praised Amy & Isabelle. In literature, the unreliable narrator gets all of the attention-though far more interesting a creation is the truly unlikable narrator, to say nothing of one the reader still identifies and empathizes with, deeply. Here's the twelfth of dozens of choices in our latest in six years of NBCC Reads surveys. ![]() So we're looking back at the winners and finalists, all archived on our website, and we've asked our members and former honorees to pick a favorite. In 2014 the National Book Critics Circle prepares to celebrate nearly forty years of the best work selected by the critics themselves, and also to launch the new John Leonard award for first book. Lewis for his biography of Edith Wharton, and Paul Fussell (The Great War and Modern Memory, criticism). Doctorow (Ragtime, fiction), John Ashbery (Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, poetry), R.W.B. What is your favorite National Book Critics Circle finalist of all time? The first NBCC winners, honored in 1975 for books published in 1974, were E.L. ![]()
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