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Los Angeles Times Book Prize

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1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerLove in the Time of CholeraGabriel García MárquezNobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera. 'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminde...Amazon1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistLibraDon DeLilloAmazonMoon TigerPenelope LivelyAmazonShowdownJorge AmadoAmazonThe Fifth ChildDoris May LessingAmazon
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1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerReconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877Eric FonerNewly Reissued with a New Introduction: From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America. Eric Foner's "master...Amazon
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1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerNew and Collected PoemsRichard WilburSpanning four decades of work and encompassing the poet's six previously published volumes of poetry, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata, this volume represents the lifetime work of the man invested as Poet Laureate of the United States, October 1987...Amazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerThis Boy's Life: A MemoirTobias WolffThis unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are const...Amazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerParting the Waters: Volume 1 of America in the King Years, 1954-1963Taylor 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...Amazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Heart of the CountryFay WeldonWhen Natalie's husband, Harry, kisses her and their two children goodbye, departs for the office, and never returns, Natalie immediately blames herself. If she hadn't been cheating on her husband every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, he never would have le...Amazon1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistMidnight SweetsBette PesetskyAmazonMother's girlElaine FeinsteinAmazonThe City of MarvelsEduardo Mendoza, Bernard MolloyAmazonThe Joy Luck Club: A NovelAmy TanAmazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerAn Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented HollywoodNeal GablerA provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry. The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry W...Amazon
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerA First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin RooseveltGeoffrey C. WardIn this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from cloistered youth to the bri...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistMeans of Ascent: Volume 2 of The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. CaroAmazonSimone de Beauvoir: A BiographyDeirdre BairAmazonThe Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918Patricia O'tooleAmazonThe Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret ThatcherHugo YoungAmazon
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