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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Book Award Post # 13,557

posted by on March 13 at 10:33 AM

Kate Christensen’s novel The Great Man won the PEN/Faulkner Award. This award, which has gone to Phillip Roth for the last thirty-seven years straight, usually has a pretty high-quality shortlist. I’ve not read Man, but I’ve read In the Drink, her first novel, and it was pretty good. The Great Man is about a painter’s death and the women who he’s left behind. Christensen jokingly refers to it as ‘biddy lit.

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Congradulations on your stellar review!!!!

Best wishes to the book signing.....

...and don't forget constant readers Paul... who may or not support a Ron!!!!!


By the way.... maybe someone will right the book...oh forget it as I hang to the left when there is a left to hang with.

Say hi-low hid-i-y you-r holed to Karl Rove for me... I've got to go explain to my social worker why the republicans who embarrassed Hillary Clintons Health care reform package ......

or whatever it was propossed as .....

now is in a stand down mode with a Three Trillion Dollar debt\cost disparity caboose riding the light train on the Rosa Parks Old Testiment name sane who has a job to do so that our youth in the ocean won't have to sell the secret locks on the backs of cereal chocs. Good day to you sir!!!

Posted by danielbennettkieneker | March 13, 2008 10:53 AM

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