Let's look at more top books published and released in 2009.
Brooklyn: A Novel (Colm Toibin)
Set in the 1950s, Brooklyn is the story of Eilis Lacey, a 15-year-old from Enniscorthy, Ireland, who travels to the US after World War II as an immigrant. Sponsored by Father Flood, a priest who travels from Ireland to America and back to help other immigrants find jobs in New York, Eilis left her older sister and mother behind to start a new life in Brooklyn. She has luck finding a job as an employee at a high-end department store, where she meets Tony, an
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Author: Cormac McCarthy
November 16th, 2009 by Louise | Authors
Cormac McCarthy. Some say he is the greatest living American author, yet others have never heard of him. He has written ten novels, a couple of plays, and a screenplay. His works typically are considered "Western" or "Southern Gothic." He has won a number of prestigious awards, including a National Book Award in 1992 and the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. The New York Times Book Review wrote, "[McCarthy] puts most other American writers to shame. [His] work itself repays the tight focus of his attention with its finely wrought craftsmanship and its ferocious energy." Here are a selective few descriptions of
