Post 9/11 novel 'Netherland' wins PEN/Faulkner prize
The choice was announced Thursday by Susan Richards Shreve and Robert Stone, directors of the Washington-based PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
O'Neill, whose book is narrated by a man who lived in downtown Manhattan at the time of the 2001 terrorist attacks, will receive $15,000. The finalists — Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum's Ms. Hempel Chronicles, Susan Choi's A Person of Interest, Richard Price's Lush Life and Ron Rash's Serena— each get $5,000.
Previous winners include Philip Roth, John Updike and E.L. Doctorow.
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