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Los Angeles Times Book Prize

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1980 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Second Coming: A NovelWalker PercyA successful man’s midlife crisis may just provide a twisted path to happiness in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of The Last Gentleman. Now in his late forties, Will Barrett lives a life other men only dream of. Wealthy from a successf...Amazon1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy TooleAmazonBellefleurJoyce Carol OatesAmazonDarkness VisibleWilliam GoldingAmazonSmiley's PeopleJohn le CarréAmazon
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1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerMornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life…Theodore RooseveltDavid McCulloughThe National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian Davi...Amazon
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1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerPrisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a NumberJacobo Timerman, Toby TalbotAn Argentine newspaper publisher who dared to criticize his government's policy of cruel repression, tells the story of his arrest, imprisonment, and torture....Amazon
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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe White HotelD.M. ThomasIt is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an...Amazon1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDad: A NovelWilliam WhartonAmazonEllis Island and Other StoriesMark HelprinAmazonThe Collected Stories of Elizabeth BowenElizabeth BowenAmazonThe Stories of Ray BradburyRay BradburyAmazonZuckerman UnboundPhilip RothAmazon
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1982 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerWaldo EmersonGay Wilson AllenProvides an intimate look at the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, reevaluating his personal relationships with women, philosophers, reformers, and correspondents and eliminating many widely help misconceptions...Amazon
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