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1992 Awards

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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerAll the Pretty HorsesCormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses, the first novel of the Border Trilogy, published in 1992, was an international bestseller, winning both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It tells the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds hi...Amazon1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistBlack WaterJoyce Carol OatesAmazonClockersRichard PriceAmazonLet the Dead Bury Their DeadRandall KenanAmazonOuterbridge ReachRobert StoneAmazon
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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerWriting Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her WorldCarol BrightmanNow that we know the public was duped by an administration looking for politically saleable motives for a "pre-emptive" invasion of Iraq, the question is: Why did the US invade? Carol Brightman takes us through the various stages of the war, documenting th...Amazon1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistKissingerWalter IsaacsonAmazonLooking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post WolcottPaul HendricksonAmazonThe Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958Jack BeattyAmazonTrumanDavid McCulloughAmazon
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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerLincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade AmericaGarry WillsThe power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His ...Amazon1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistA Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of WarSusan GriffinAmazonCan Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American CultureDana GioiaAmazonThe Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the AcademyFrederick CrewsAmazonWhere the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the WestWallace StegnerAmazon
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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerYoung Men and FireNorman MacleanOn August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were...Amazon1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBreaking the Maya CodeMichael D. CoeAmazonDeath Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in BrazilNancy Scheper-HughesAmazonHome Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar AmericaDonald KatzAmazonThe Diversity of LifeEdward O. WilsonAmazon
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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerCollected Shorter Poems 1946-1991Hayden CarruthPoems written over the past thirty-three years deal with art, nature, memories, snow, myths, war, love, knowledge, and rural life...Amazon1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA Dream of MindC.K. WilliamsAmazonGilgameshDavid FerryAmazonLooking for LuckMaxine KuminAmazonThe FatherSharon OldsAmazon
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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1992 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1992 Nebula - Novel WinnerStations of the TideMichael SwanwickThe Nebula Award-wining novel from Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions. The Jubilee Tides will drown the conti...Amazon1992 Nebula - Novel ShortlistBarrayarLois McMaster BujoldAmazonBone DanceEmma BullAmazonOrbital ResonanceJohn BarnesAmazonSynnersPat CadiganAmazonThe Difference EngineWilliam Gibson & Bruce SterlingAmazon
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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

1992 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

1992 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerKing of Morning, Queen of DayIan McDonaldWinner of the Philip K Dick Award “Filled with wondrous language, marvelous events.” —Science Fiction Chronicle In Ireland, three generations of young women fight to control the powers coursing through their blood: the power to bring the mystical Otherworl...Amazon1992 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistBone DanceEmma BullAmazonBridge of YearsRobert Charles WilsonAmazonMojo and the Pickle JarDouglas BellAmazonThe CipherKathe KojaAmazon
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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1992 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1992 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerA Thousand AcresJane SmileyThis powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that ...Amazon1992 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistJerniganDavid GatesAmazonLila: An Inquiry into MoralsRobert M. PirsigAmazonMao IIDon DeLilloAmazon
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