1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

The Second Coming: A Novel

Walker Percy

A successful man’s midlife crisis may just provide a twisted path to happiness in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of The Last Gentleman. Now in his late forties, Will Barrett lives a life other men only dream of. Wealthy from a successf…

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Bellefleur

Joyce Carol Oates

Darkness Visible

William Golding

Smiley’s People

John le Carré