Award Nominees: PEN/Faulker Award for Fiction


Interested in reading high-quality fiction? These books on the shortlist for the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction are good picks.

A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Working side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future.

Presents a collection of short stories that portray contemporary American life.

Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
In the early 1970s, trainer Tommy Hansel attempts a horse racing scam at a small, backwoods track in West Virginia, but nothing goes according to his plan when the horses refuse to cooperate and nearly everyone at the track seems to know his scheme.

Model Home by Eric Puchner
After tragedy strikes, Warren Ziller and his disintegrating family are forced to move to one of the houses in his abandoned real estate development in the desert.

A collection of stories explores every kind of domestic discord: unruly or distant children, alienated spouses, domestic abuse, loneliness, death, and divorce.

The winner of the $15,000 first prize will be announced March 15, with the four finalists receiving $5,000 each. All five authors will be honored during the PEN/Faulkner Award ceremony at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., on May 7.

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