National Book Critics Circle Award: 2009.
FEATURE.
First published March 17, 2009 (Booklist Online).
The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced March 12, 2009, in New York City. For more information, visit the NBCC website.
Fiction
2666. By Roberto Bolano. Farrar, $30 (9780374100148).
Nonfiction
The Forever War. By Dexter Filkins. Knopf, $25 (9780307266392).
Autobiography
My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq. By Ariel Sabar. Algonquin, $29.95 (9781565124905).
Biography
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul. By Patrick French. Knopf, $30 (9781400044054).
Poetry
Sleeping It off in Rapid City. By August Kleinzahler. Farrar, $23 (9780374265830).
Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems. By Juan Felipe Herrera. Univ. of Arizona, $24.95 (9780816527038).
Criticism
Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter. By Seth Lerer. Univ. of Chicago, $30 (9780226473000).