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National Book Awards Nominees for Fiction: Hemon, Robinson, Kushner, Mathiessen, Scibona

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October 15, 2008 | 12:19 p.m
National Book Awards Nominees for Fiction: Hemon, Robinson, Kushner, Mathiessen, Scibona

Scott Turow, speaking at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, just now announced the National Book Awards fiction finalists:

Alexander Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead)

Rachel Kushner, Telex From Cuba (Scribner)

Peter Mathiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library)

Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Salvatore Scibona, The End (Graywolf Press)

A surprising list. Several omissions are notable, but the absence of Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, which was also snubbed by the Man Booker Prize, is likely to be especially remarked upon today.

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