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'Empire Falls' Wins Fiction Pulitzer; 'Metaphysical Club,' Composer Brant, Poet Carl Dennis Take Arts Prizes
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Practicality and poignancy prevailed yesterday when the Pulitzer
Prize board announced the 2002 winners for letters, drama and music.
"Empire Falls" by Richard Russo won the award for fiction.
"I thought it was a real long shot," said Russo of his tragicomic
novel about a divorced father who runs a diner in a down-in-the-
mouth Maine town.
The story, according to critics, is powerful and straightforward.
The Washington Post reviewer said that "the author seems determined
to subordinate style to honest and compassionate storytelling. That
'Empire Falls' resonates so deeply is a measure of its ...
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