Award Winning Books by
DANA SPIOTTA
| | In the heyday of the 1970s underground, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Whittaker - passionate, idealistic and in love - design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes wrong, the course of their lives is forever changed. The two must erase their past, forge new identities and never see one another again. Now it is the 1990s. Mary lives in the suburbs with her fifteen-year-...
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| | The Los Angeles Dana Spiotta evokes in her bold and strangely lyrical first novel is a land of Spirit Gyms and Miracle Miles, a great centerless place where chains of reference get lost, or finally don't matter.
Mina lives with her screenwriter husband and works at her best friend Lorene's highly successful concept restaurants, which exploit the often unconscious desires and idiosyncrasie...
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| Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* |
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| National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations |
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STONE ARABIA · |
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| National Book Award Nominations |
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Eat the Document · |
| Man Booker Prize Wins |
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*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award
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57 reviews (2016) (288p)
26 reviews (2006) (304p)
