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1988 Awards

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1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerWorks and Lives: The Anthropologist as AuthorClifford GeertzThe illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categoriesthis is magic, that is technologyhas long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of wri...Amazon1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistLaw and Literature: A Misunderstood RelationRichard A. PosnerAmazonMelodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic LanguageJohn HollanderAmazonPoetry and the WorldRobert PinskyAmazonThe Death of Rhythm and BluesNelson GeorgeAmazon
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1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Middleman and Other StoriesBharati MukherjeeBharati Mukherjee's work illuminates a new world of people in migration that has transformed the meaning of America. Now in a Grove paperback edition, The Middleman and Other Stories is a dazzling display of the vision of this important modern writer. An a...Amazon1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistLibraDon DeLilloAmazonParis TroutPete DexterAmazonWheat That Springeth GreenJ.F. PowersAmazonWhere I’m Calling From: New and Selected StoriesRaymond CarverAmazon
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1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerParting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63Taylor BranchIn volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is de...Amazon1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamNeil SheehanAmazonBattle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War EraJames M. McPhersonAmazonEuropeansJane KramerAmazonReconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877Eric FonerAmazon
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1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe One DayDonald Hall...Amazon1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistHarp LakeJohn HollanderAmazonNew and Collected PoemsRichard WilburAmazonOne Thousand Avant-Garde PlaysKenneth KochAmazonSelected Poems, 1938-1988Thomas McGrathAmazon
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1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1988 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1988 Nebula - Novel WinnerThe Falling WomanPat MurphyWinner of the Nebula Award: “A lovely and literate exploration of the dark moment where myth and science meet” (Samuel R. Delany). When night falls over the Yucatan, the archaeologists lay down their tools. But while her colleagues relax, Elizabeth Butler ...Amazon1988 Nebula - Novel ShortlistSoldier of the MistGene WolfeAmazonThe Forge of GodGreg BearAmazonThe Uplift WarDavid BrinAmazonVergil in AvernoAvram DavidsonAmazonWhen Gravity FailsGeorge Alec EffingerAmazon
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1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

1988 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

1988 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerStrange ToysPatricia GearyThis novel takes the reader on parallel tours into the world of the supernatural and into the life of a young woman struggling to make peace with the known and the unknown. Told with the skill of a master storyteller....Amazon1988 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistDark SeekerK. W. JeterAmazonDover BeachRichard BowkerAmazonLife During WartimeLucius ShepardAmazonMemoriesMike McQuayAmazonMindplayersPat CadiganAmazon
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1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1988 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1988 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerLook Homeward: A Life of Thomas WolfeDavid Herbert DonaldBased on the papers of the Wolfe Estate, this biography reveals for the first time the personal life of the major American literary figure and examines his relations with his editors, literary agents, and contemporary writers....Amazon1988 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistWhen Breath Becomes AirPaul KalanithiAmazon
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1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1988 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1988 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerBelovedToni MorrisonNew York Times Bestseller Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eightee...Amazon1988 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistPersian NightsDiane JohnsonAmazonThat NightAlice McDermottAmazon
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1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1988 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1988 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Making of the Atomic BombRichard RhodeTwenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan...Amazon1988 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistChaos: Making a New ScienceJames GleickAmazonSetting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging SocietyDaniel CallahanAmazon
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