Salvatore Scibona's THE END Named a Finalist for the National Book Award

October 15, 2008—Graywolf Press is thrilled to announce that The End by Salvatore Scibona has been selected as a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award in the fiction category. The announcement was made this morning at the famed Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago by bestselling author Scott Turow.

The winner in each of the four categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature—will be announced at the 59th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Wednesday, November 19. Each winner receives $10,000 plus a bronze statue; each Finalist receives a bronze medal and a $1,000 cash award.

The End, which details a single day in 1953 as lived by six people at an Ohio carnival, has earned Scibona favorable comparisons to William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, among others. It is Scibona's first novel.