Found 20 results for "award:national_book_award=2000"
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
WHERE'S Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
IT is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
In those days cheap apartments were almost impossible to find in Manhattan, so I had to move to Brooklyn.
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
THE CANDLEFLAME and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall an...
In the Heart of the Sea
by Nathaniel Philbrick
IT WAS, HE LATER REMEMBERED, "the most pleasing moment of my life"-the moment he stepped aboard the whaleship Essex for ...
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
ANYONE WHO WATCHES EVEN THE SLIGHTEST amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemi...
Waiting
by Ha Jin, Ha Jin
Lin Kong graduated from the military medical school toward the end of 1963 and came to Muji to work as a doctor.
Bruce Nauman
by Bruce Nauman, Dörte Zbikowski
The challenge involved in categorizing Bruce Nauman is related not only to the breadth of different media with which he ...
In America
by Susan Sontag
IRRESOLUTE, no, shivering, I'd crashed a party in the private dining room of a hotel.
