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Baker & Taylor Proudly Supports the
Best of the National Book Awards Voting
Want to vote for your favorite National Book Award winner? For the first time ever, the National Book Foundation is polling the reading public. Think of it as a “people’s choice” award. First, the foundation asked 140 top writers to narrow the field to just six titles.
The six contenders are: Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison; The Stories of John Cheever; Collected Stories of William Faulkner, Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor; The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty; and Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon.
Voting begins today and ends at midnight Oct. 21. Go to www.nationalbook.org to vote.
 To learn more about the National Book Award promotion and to hear what Executive Director Harold Augenbraum learned about reading all 77 past National Book Awards winners, click here.
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The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever
9780375724428
$17.95
When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic. Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation." From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "The Enormous Radio" to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" and "The Swimmer," Cheever tells us everything we need to know about "the pain and sweetness of life."
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
9780679732761
$14.95
Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. |
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
William Faulkner
9780679764038
$19.95
This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. Among the 42 selections in this book are such classics as A Bear Hunt, A Rose for Emily, Two Soldiers, and The Brooch. |
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Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
9780374515362
$18.00
The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. |
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Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
9780143039945
$20.00
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty
9780156189217
$16.00
All forty-one stories published by the distinguished writer are brought together, displaying her insights into the American South and including her most famous work, Death of a Traveling Salesman as well as previously uncollected stories. |
