1983 Awards Archives - Page 4 of 6

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerHugging the Shore: Essays and CriticismJohn UpdikeWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth ...Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAll American MusicJohn RockwellAmazonArt and Ardor: EssaysCynthia OzickAmazonThe Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth CenturySvetlana AlpersAmazonThe Odes of John KeatsHelen VendlerAmazon

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerIronweedWilliam KennedyThe beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Francis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after ...Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistCathedralRaymond CarverAmazonDuring the Reign of the QueenJoan ChaseAmazonMagnetic Field (s)Ron LoewinsohnAmazonThe Anatomy LessonPhilip RothAmazon

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White HouseSeymour M. HershPrice of Power examines Henry Kissinger’s influence on the development of the foreign policy of the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon....Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistChildren of WarRoger RosenblattAmazonDistant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic FishermanWilliam W. WarnerAmazonPresent History: On Nuclear War, Detente and Other ControversiesTheodore DraperAmazonRevolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern WorldDavid S. LandesAmazon

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe Changing Light at SandoverJames MerrillA series of mystical poems explores the author's experiences communicating through a Ouija board with a spirit named Ephraim who guides the poet through a series of conversations with W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, Plato, and others....Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistErosionJorie GrahamAmazonPicture BrideCathy SongAmazonTarC.K. WilliamsAmazonThe KingfisherAmy ClampittAmazon

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1983 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1983 Nebula - Novel WinnerNo Enemy But TimeMichael BishopJoshua Kampa is torn between two worlds-the Early Pleistocene Africa of his dreams and the twentieth-century reality of his waking life. These worlds are transposed when a government experiment sends him over a million years back in time. Here, John builds...Amazon1983 Nebula - Novel ShortlistFoundation's EdgeIsaac AsimovAmazonFridayRobert A. HeinleinAmazonHelliconia SpringBrian W. AldissAmazonThe Sword of the LictorGene WolfeAmazonThe Transmigration of Timothy ArcherPhilip K. DickAmazon

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

1983 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

1983 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerSoftwareRudy RuckerThe creator of the first robots with real brains, Cobb Anderson finds himself another aged "pheezer" with a bad heart, and when he is offered immortality by his creations, he risks his body and his world. Reissue....Amazon1983 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistAureliaR. A. LaffertyAmazonRoderickJohn SladekAmazonThe Prometheus ManRay Faraday NelsonAmazonThe Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction PoetrySteve Rasnic TemAmazonWaiting for the BarbariansJ. M. CoetzeeAmazon

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1983 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1983 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerGrowing UpRussell BakerThe Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir about coming of age in America between the world wars: “So warm, so likable and so disarmingly funny” (The New York Times). Ranging from the backwoods of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the city of Baltimore, thi...Amazon1983 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistBlack Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett JustKenneth ManningAmazonThomas Carlyle: A BiographyFred KaplanAmazonThomas E. Dewey and His TimesRichard Norton SmithAmazon

25Mar

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerLost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help BookWalker Percy“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is ...Amazon

25Mar

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1983 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1983 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerSettlementsDavid DonnellWinner of the Governor Generals Award, this collection of Donnells best poetry pulses with the realities of home, street, and working life. His ironic wit and lyrical passages make for a fantastic read complete with his signature deadpan style and post-m...Amazon1983 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistBirding, or DesireDon McKayAmazonDoctrine of SignaturesAnne SzumigalskiAmazonPredators of the Adoration: Selected Poems 1972-82Christopher DewdneyAmazon

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1983 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1983 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerByng of Vimy: General and Govenor GeneralJeffery WilliamsField Marshal the Viscount Byng of Vimy did not fit into the conventional mould in the Army, as Governor-General of Canada or as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Few officers commanded more widespread affection from their troops, or knew them and t...Amazon1983 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistReading from Left to Right: One Man's Political HistoryH.S. FernsAmazonThe GameKen DrydenAmazon