Annal:1978 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1978. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1978 Pulitzer–fiction winner
- Score: 10.28
A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find difficult to define.
Whether a story dashes the bravado of young street toughs or pierces through the self-deception of a failed preacher, challenges the audacity of a killer or explodes the jealousy of two lovers, James Alan McPherson has created an array of haunting images and memorable characters in an unsurpassed collection of honest, masterful fiction.
