Annal:2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- 2001 Pulitzer–fiction winner
- 2001 PEN-faulkner finalist
- 2001 Spectrum shortlist
- 2000 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- 2000 NBCC–Fiction finalist
- Score: 34.51
It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn’s own Sammy Clay, is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears, and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that…
- 2001 Pulitzer–fiction finalist
- 2000 NBA–Fiction finalist
- Score: 12.51
“A lush-bodied girl in the prime of her physical beauty. In an ivory georgette crepe sundress with a halter top that gathers her breasts up in soft undulating folds of the fabric. She’s standing with bare legs apart on a New York subway grating. Her blond head is thrown rapturously back as an updraft lifts her full, flaring skirt, exposing white cotton panties. White cotton! The ivory-crepe sundress is floating and filmy as magic. The dress is magic. Without the dress the girl would be female meat, raw and exposed.”
She was an all-American girl who became a…
- 2001 Pulitzer–fiction finalist
- 2000 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- Score: 12.51
Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an air-conditioned landscape eccentric with signs and portents—from the preservation of the living dead in a nursing home to the presentation of the dead as living in a wildlife museum—accompanied by restless, confounded adults. A father lusts after his handsome gardener even as he’s haunted (literally) by his dead wife; a heartbroken dog runs afoul of an angry neighbor; a young…
