I'm a (fairly) young man and therefore, I gravitate naturally towards book that have been written by people of the same sex than me. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be natural, but it sure feels so. There is a beautiful fatality to a well done male character. We are success hungry dreamers and yet, we're so reckless that we often have to leave part of ourselves with experience. That changes a man into a thousand different sorts of mess. That's what I love to read about a male character. I want to see them take the dark road out of the gutter. This category rewards the novel that featured the male characters that shined the hardest in pitch black darkness. The nominees are...
Paul Little in Aaron Philip Clark's The Science Of Paul
Teardrop Dolly in Daniel Woodrell's Winter Bone
Billy Lafitte in Anthony Neil Smith's Yellow Medicine/Hogdoggin'
Nick Valentine in Matthew McBride's Frank Sinatra In A Blender
Have you read any of those? If so, who do you think should win?