Tag: pulitzer prize
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The Haunting Waters of A River Runs Through It
“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing” –opening lines Anyone who has ever gone fly fishing knows it to be a complex art -almost spiritual in nature. Fly fishing forces a man to slow down, find rhythm, and discover patience and harmony with nature. In Norman Maclean’s A River […]
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Thoughts on The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) is the second novel to win the Pulitzer Prize. Its author, Booth Tarkington, is one of the few writers to ever win the Pulitzer twice (amazingly, he won it again for Alice Adams in 1922). With these accolades, he joins the exclusive club of William Faulkner and John Updike who also both won […]
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