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Article: Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize
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- November 20, 2008
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The economy hung like a cloud over the 59th annual National Book Awards. Barack Obama was the silver lining.
"It's a good time to be alive," announced author, Obama fan and fiction committee chair Gail Godwin, as she gracefully pulled out an envelope Wednesday night_ in stated emulation of the president-elect _ and revealed that Peter Matthiessen had won for "Shadow Country," a thorough revision of a trilogy of novels released in the 1990s.
As the book industry faces a holiday season that Barnes & Noble Inc. head Len Riggio has said could be the worst in memory, it gathered on Wall Street, of all places, under the 70-foot ceiling and Wedgewood dome of ...