National Book Award: 'The Echo Maker'
16th Nov 2006, 13:45 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) -- A rural car crash from the 1990s inspired this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction, Richard Powers' "The Echo Maker." But the events of Sept. 11, 2001, cut even deeper into his scientific tale of an accident victim's insistence that his sister is an impostor....
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