The best American work of fiction of the past 25 years, according to a New York Times survey of authors and critics. The winner: Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Runners-up include DeLillo, McCarthy, Updike, Roth, Toole, Carver, O’Brien, Johnson, and Ford. (Lots of Roth, actually.)
The best British/Commonwealth work of fiction of the past 25 years, according to a Guardian survey of authors and critics. The winner: J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. Runners-up include Amis (Martin and Kingsley), Burgess, McEwan, Ishiguro, Rushdie, Atwood, Beckett, Byatt, and Naipaul.
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