Winners of the National Book Award for Fiction (known as the American Book Award from 1980-1983).
National Book Award for Fiction Public
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THE CENTAUR
—originally conceived as a contrasting companion to Mr. Updike's previous novel Rabbit, Run — retells the myth of …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1964 for Fiction
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Herzog is the story of Moses Herzog, great sufferer, joker and moaner, cuckold, charmer, a man of our time. Seeing …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1965 for Fiction
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter de Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter's recent novel Ship of Fools was an enormous popular and critical success. But it is for her …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1966 for Fiction
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The Fixer is the story of a little man, a handy-man, who becomes a hero before our eyes. Yakov Bok …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1967 for Fiction
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The Eighth Day de Thornton Wilder
The story of The Eighth Day begins in Coaltown, Illinois, in 1902, with Breckenridge Lansing's murder and John Ashley's trial, …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1968 for Fiction
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I focused the flashlight toward the sound. A large cage was suspended from the rafters. Formed of metal grating, it …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1969 for Fiction
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Slaughterhouse-Five de Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's long-awaited war novel proves to be a miracle of compression. It is a contemporary Pilgrim's Progress, with …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1970 for Fiction
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Mr. Sammler’s Planet de Saul Bellow
A tall old man, blind in one eye, born in Cracow but with Oxonian manners and the face of a …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1971 for Fiction
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The Complete Stories de Flannery O'Connor
This book brings together for the first time the complete stories—thirty-one in all—of one of the great American writers of …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1972 for Fiction
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It was more nearly an instinct than knowledge, however, that made me understand that if it is one's destiny to …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1973 for Fiction
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"At this point I interrupted my sister as usual to say, 'You have a way with words, Scheherazade. This is …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1973 for Fiction
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A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories de Isaac Bashevis Singer
"If there is such a thing as truth," Mr. Singer writes at the end of the title story in this …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1974 for Fiction
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Gravity's Rainbow de Thomas Pynchon
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I changed the Publication year from 1973 to 1980. This digital edition is a scan copy of the 9th printing …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1974 for Fiction
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Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1975 for Fiction
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In 1967 Robert Stone was awarded the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for his first novel, A Hall of Mirrors. …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 1975 for Fiction
