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Excerpts from All the Finalists Including the
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The Contenders: Excerpts from the 2013 National Book Award Fiction Finalists brings together samples of the five Finalists for the National Book Award in Fiction selected by a panel of five experts from over 400 submitted books. The finalists are The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Good Lord Bird by James McBride, Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon, and Tenth of December by George Saunders. The winner will be announced at the 64th National Book Awards on November 20.
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The Contenders: Excerpts from the 2013 National Book Award Poetry Finalists brings together samples of the five Finalists for the National Book Award in Poetry selected by a panel of five experts from over 200 submitted books. The finalists are Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart, Stay, Illusion by Lucie Brock-Broido, The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka, Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen, and Incarnadine by Mary Szybist. The winner will be announced at the 64th National Book Awards on November 20.
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The Contenders: Excerpts from the 2013 National Book Award Nonfiction Finalists brings together samples of the five Finalists for the National Book Award in Nonfiction selected by a panel of five experts from over 500 submitted books. The finalists are Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor, and Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright. The winner will be announced at the 64th National Book Awards on November 20.
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The Contenders: Excerpts from the 2013 National Book Award Young People’s Literature Finalists brings together samples of the five Finalists for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature selected by a panel of five experts from almost 300 submitted books. The finalists are The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt, The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata, Far Far Away by Tom McNeal, Picture Me Gone by Meg Rosoff, and Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang. The winner will be announced at the 64th National Book Awards on November 20.
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