That Night
American novelist, born 1953. Won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1998.
That Night is a 1987 novel by Alice McDermott. It was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction in 1987.
On 2 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Alice McDermott
- First published
- 1987
- Awards
- National Book Award for Fiction shortlist, 1987
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlist, 1988
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Coming of age, Class and society, Family saga
Is That Night worth reading?
2 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it: the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 1987) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (winners and finalists) (Columbia University, 1988) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of That Night
The edition we link to is the Bloomsbury Publishing PLC paperback (2005).
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (paperback, 2005)
- ISBN
- 9780747568247
How critics, prizes and readers rate That Night
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 67% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work