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Previous Winner and Nominees  1999 Winner 
The Hoursby Michael Cunningham Our Price: $23.00
In THE HOURS, Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair.
Barbara Kingsolver calls her novel THE POISONWOOD BIBLE her "magnum opus." And it is -- more than 500 pages of the "deepest-delving" fiction she's ever written, not to mention a fresh new locale. Packed with themes of cultural diversity, political morality, and environmental ethics, this one, unlike her three previous Southwestern novels, is set in postcolonial Africa. The narrative begins in the relatively tame Belgian Congo of the late 1950s, gains speed in the tumultuous early '60s (with the coup of the independent Lumumba government toppled by the CIA-backed, UN-funded Mobutu government), then branches out several decades in the future. "I set out to ask a very long question," Kingsolver says. "What have we done as a nation, a culture, a people to Africa, and where do we go from here?" Read a transcript of our chat with Barbara Kingsolver.
Abolitionist John Brown, who some historians believe was a pivotal instigator of the Civil War, is at the center of Russell Banks's CLOUDSPLITTER. Deeply researched and peopled with a cast of characters both historical and invented, CLOUDSPLITTER evocatively brings to life the story of a devoutly religious and devoted family man whose unbridled wrath over the immorality of slavery helped shape the course of historical events in his lifetime and well beyond. Read a transcript of our chat with Russell Banks.
Leonard Schiller is a writer in his seventies. All of his books are out of print; he's left no mark in literary history; a lifetime of dedicated labor has brought him few rewards. Heather Wolfe is a graduate student in her twenties. She read Schiller's novels when she was growing up, and they changed her life. She decides to write her master's thesis about Schiller's work, and she sets out to meet him. STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING is a novel about the unexpected consequences of that meeting -- and the unexpected consequences of art.
THE DOCTOR STORIES is Richard Selzer's selection of his own short stories, culled from three decades of writing. Each piece in this compilation explores what it means to be a doctor, to tend to the sick and dying, and to heal. Drawing from his classic books, including CONFESSIONS OF A KNIFE and LETTERS TO A YOUNG DOCTOR, Selzer portrays the interactions of people at moments of crisis and drama.
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