This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection features 61 stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called the greatest generation. Profound and daring . . . some of the most wonderful stories any American has written.--The Boston Globe.This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection features 61 stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called the greatest generation. Profound and daring . . . some of the most wonderful stories any American has written.--The Boston Globe. Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 1978 and Pulitzer Prize 1979.