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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 - Current Interest

1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Fate of the EarthJonathan SchellThese two books, which helped focus national attention on the movement for a nuclear freeze, are published in one volume....Amazon

25Mar

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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 - Fiction

1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Flag for SunriseRobert StoneA Flag for Sunrise is a novel of Americans drawn into the maelstrom of Tecan, a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. At a mission on the coast a priest is lapsing into alcoholic mysticism, while a young American nun is veering towards...Amazon1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A NovelAnne TylerAmazonSixty StoriesDonald BarthelmeAmazonThe Collected StoriesIsaac Bashevis SingerAmazonThe Dean's DecemberSaul BellowAmazon

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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 - History

1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980Jonathan D. SpenceChronicles the history of the Chinese Revolution, focusing on the people and events of modern Chinese history, the writings of modern Chinese authors, the issues facing the People's Republic, and more...Amazon

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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 - Poetry

1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerPlutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980Allen Ginsberg...Amazon

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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 - Biography

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerThe Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White HouseSeymour 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....Amazon

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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

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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 - Fiction

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerSchindler's Ark: (Schindler's List)Thomas KeneallyA stunning novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust ......Amazon1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistChronicle of a Death ForetoldGabriel García MárquezAmazonThe Little Drummer Girl: A NovelJohn le CarréAmazonThe Name of the RoseUmberto EcoAmazonThe Philosopher's PupilIris MurdochAmazon

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 - History

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Wheels of Commerce: Volume 2 of Civilization and Capitalism: 15Th-18th CenturyFernand BraudelBy examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Originally published in the early 1980s, Civilization traces the social and economic history o...Amazon

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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 - Poetry

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Changing Light at Sandover: A PoemJames 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....Amazon

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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerThe Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz KafkaErnst PawelA comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world....Amazon