Fwd: What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?

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From left: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times; Derek
Shapton/The Associated Press; Sara Krulwich/The New
York Times; The Associated Press; Don Hogan
Charles/The New York Times (Photo credits)

"Beloved," by Toni Morrison, center, was chosen as the
best American fiction of the last 25 years. Runners-up
were, from left: Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, John
Updike and Don DeLillo.

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From: William Brownstein <William_B...@yahoo.com>
Date: May 21, 2006 3:27 AM
Subject: What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?

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Full reviews from the books mentioned in the article below. Click onto
the current link of The New York Times to read the reviews:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/books/fiction-25-years.html?ex=1148270400&en=65fe6c1cea34b932&ei=5070

The New York Times

May 21, 2006

What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Early this year, the Book Review's editor, Sam Tanenhaus, sent out a
short letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors
and other literary sages, asking them to please identify "the single
best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years." [Read A.
O. Scott's essay. See a list of the judges.] Following are the results.
THE WINNER:
Beloved

Toni Morrison
(1987)

    * Review

THE RUNNERS-UP:
Underworld

Don DeLillo

(1997)

    * Review

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

(1985)

    * Review

Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels

John Updike

(1995)

    * Review: 'Rabbit at Rest'

(1990)

    * Review: 'Rabbit Is Rich'

(1981)

    * Review: 'Rabbit Redux'

(1971)

    * Review: 'Rabbit, Run'

(1960)
American Pastoral

Philip Roth

(1997)

    * Review

THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ALSO RECEIVED MULTIPLE VOTES:
A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

(1980)

    * Review

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

(1980)

      (This book was not reviewed by The Times.)

Winter's Tale

Mark Helprin

(1983)

    * Review

White Noise

Don DeLillo

(1985)

    * Review

The Counterlife

Philip Roth

(1986)

    * Review

Libra

Don DeLillo

(1988)

    * Review

Where I'm Calling From

Raymond Carver

(1988)

    * Review

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

(1990)

    * Review

Mating

Norman Rush

(1991)

    * Review

Jesus' Son

Denis Johnson

(1992)

    * Review

Operation Shylock

Philip Roth

(1993)

    * Review

Independence Day

Richard Ford

(1995)

    * Review

Sabbath's Theater

Philip Roth

(1995)

    * Review

Border Trilogy

Cormac McCarthy

(1999)

    * Review: 'Cities of the Plain'

(1998)

    * Review: 'The Crossing'

(1994)

    * Review: 'All the Pretty Horses'

(1992)
The Human Stain

Philip Roth

(2000)

    * Review

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

(2003)

    * Review

The Plot Against America

Philip Roth

(2004)

    * Review


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