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1973 Awards

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1973 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

1973 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1973 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerUp CountryMaxine KuminThe special world of rural New England is the focus of Maxine Kumin's new volume of poems. A delightful gift for all who love this region, it is also a fine collection of new and selected pastoral poems by a poet whose work has been widely published and pr...Amazon
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1973 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1973 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1973 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerChildren of Crisis, vols. 2 and 3,Robert ColesIn the 1950s Robert Coles began studying, living among, and, above all, listening to American children. The results of his efforts--revealed in five volumes published between 1967 and 1977--constitute one of the most searching and vigorous social studies e...AmazonFire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in VietnamFrances FitzGeraldThis landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald's own research and travels, takes us inside Vietnam-into the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages and the corrupt crowded cities, into the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and ...Amazon
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1973 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1973 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1973 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Optimist's DaughterEudora WeltyThis Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, t...Amazon
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1973 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1973 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1973 Nebula - Novel WinnerThe Gods ThemselvesIsaac AsimovIn the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens....Amazon1973 Nebula - Novel ShortlistDying InsideRobert SilverbergAmazonThe Book of SkullsRobert SilverbergAmazonThe Iron DreamNorman SpinradAmazonThe Sheep Look UpJohn BrunnerAmazonWhat Entropy Means to MeGeorge Alec EffingerAmazonWhen Harlie Was OneDavid GerroldAmazon
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1973 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1973 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1973 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerBeyond ApolloBarry N. MalzbergA two-man mission to Venus fails and is aborted; when it returns, the Captain is missing and the other astronaut, Harry M. Evans, is unable to explain what has happened. Or, conversely, he has too many explications; his journal of the expedition--compiled ...Amazon1973 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistDarkening IslandChristopher PriestAmazonThe ListenersJames E. GunnAmazon
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1973 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1973 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1973 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Black PrinceIris MurdochBradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is torment...Amazon
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