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1. Review: Some Luck by Jane Smiley
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By: [email protected], on 9/13/2015
Blog: Perpetually Adolescent (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  american fiction, jane smiley, Book Reviews - Fiction, some luck, The One Hundred Years trilogy, Iowa, Books, book review, Add a tag

I missed this book last year and picked it up after a customer raved about how this and it’s sequel were among the best books they had ever read. And after finishing this she may well be right! This is the first book in The Last Hundred Years trilogy. Book two, Early Warning, is already […]

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2. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
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Posted on 4/20/2009
Blog: Bookfinder.com Journal (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  award winner, Bookish, elizabeth strout, olive kitteridge, pulitzer fiction, pulitzer prize fiction, 2009 pulitzer winner, american fiction, pulitzer novel, Add a tag

I suppose I was half correct with my Pulitzer guess on Friday.... Updike didn't win but one of the outsiders did. 

Elizabeth Strout's collection of 13 tales about a retired schoolteacher named Olive Kitteridge has taken top spot as the Pulitzer Prize winner in the fiction category. 

Also nominated in the category were The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich and All Souls by Christine Schutt.

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