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1978 Awards

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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry Winnered., Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. SissmanPeter Davison...Amazon1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistNew & Selected Things Taking PlaceMay SwensonAmazonSpectral Emanations: New and Selected PoemsJohn HollanderAmazonThe Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977Adrienne RichAmazonThe Late HourMark StrandAmazon
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerFacts of LifeMaureen HowardIn this extraordinary autobiography -- now a classic of the genre -- one of the literary community's most distinguished voices brings all of her novelistic powers to the facts of her own life. This newly released edition features a new Introduction by Maur...AmazonInventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of IndependenceGarry WillisFrom one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the docu...Amazon1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14t...
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Stories of John CheeverJohn CheeverNATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Award When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic...Amazon1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistFinal PaymentsMary GordonAmazonThe CoupJohn UpdikeAmazonThe World According to GarpJohn IrvingAmazonWrinklesCharles SimmonsAmazon
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerModern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries, Selected PapersMeyer SchapiroTraces the evolution from cultured artists who added literary and historical elements to their paintings to the painters who relied on sensibility alone, with a discussion of the social meaning of abstract art...Amazon1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAnd I Worked at the Writer’s Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978Malcolm CowleyAmazonOrientalismEdward W. SaidAmazonThe Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and ReviewsEudora WeltyAmazonThe World Within the Word: EssaysWilliam H. GassAmazon
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1978 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1978 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerThe SilmarillionJ. R. R. TolkienA number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, THE SILMARILLION is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before THE HOBBIT. Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most ...Amazon1978 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistA Spell for ChameleonPiers AnthonyAmazonCry Silver BellsThomas Burnett SwannAmazonHeir of Sea and FirePatricia A. McKillipAmazonOur Lady of DarknessFritz LeiberAmazonQueens Walk in the DuskThomas Burnett SwannAmazonSilver on the TreeSusan CooperAmazonSword of the DemonRichard A. LupoffAmazonThe Book of MerlynT. H. WhiteAmazonThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverStephen R. DonaldsonAmazonThe Grey Mane of MorningJoy Chant...
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1978 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1978 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerPoems New and SelectedPatrick LaneOne of Canadas most distinguished poets and winner of the Governor Generals Award in 1979 for Poems New and Selected, Patrick Lane deserves much admiration for his remarkable poetic achievement. This new volume of his verse traces the evolution of his wo...Amazon
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1978 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1978 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerWho Do You Think You Are?Alice Munro**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. B...Amazon
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