Annal:1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
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Results of the National Book Critics Circle Award in the year 1976. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1976 NBCC–Fiction winner
- Score: 10.26
A story of an old man and an old woman—brother and sister—living together on a farm in Vermont.
The Easter Parade: A Novel
- 1976 NBCC–Fiction finalist
- Score: 6.26
Children of divorced parents, sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes are observed over four decades, and grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Richard Yates’s acclaimed novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family’s past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal.
