Who Remembers National Book Award Finalists? The Internet, Of Course

On a new National Book Foundation site that commemorates all of the finalists and winners, “the fun is in happening upon the lesser-known, like the The Balloonist, MacDonald Harris’s 1977 novel ‘about a Swedish inventor and his two companions who embark on a hydrogen-balloon voyage to the North Pole at the end of the 19th century.'”