Annal:1977 National Book Award for Fiction
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Results of the National Book Award in the year 1977. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1977 NBA–Fiction winner
- Score: 10.27
Joe Allston is a retired literary agent whose parents and only son are dead, and who feels that he has been a mere spectator through life. Than a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the journals of a trip he took to his mother’s birthplace to search for his roots; memories of that journey reveal tha t he is not quite spectator enough.
