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After 30 years, his second National Book Award Judges for the National Book Award honored a comeback, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," a thorough revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. The 81-year-old author last won a National Book Award nearly 30 years ago. |
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Club pick: ‘Tale of Despereaux’ Despereaux Tilling, an unusual rodent considered a disappointment by his mother, is the unlikely hero of the fairy tale that is this month's Al's Book Club pick. An excerpt. |