No Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012

In the end, the Pulitzer Prize committee could not agree on a winner in the "Fiction" category for 2012.  Could this mean that the three nominees for this prestigious literary prize, which recognizes American-themed fiction by American authors, are all equally good?  Check them out from Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library and decide for yourself.

• Train Dreams by Denis Johnson - Presents the story of early twentieth-century day laborer Robert Grainer, who endures the harrowing loss of his family while struggling for survival in the American West against a backdrop of radical historical changes.
• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell - Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the smamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting.
• The Pale King by David Foster Wallace - The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.