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National Book Critics Circle Award For Fiction
The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, established in 1976,''The National Book Critics Circle Journal'' 2:1, Spring 1976 , NBCC. Retrieved February 2, 2012. is an annual American presented by the National Book Critics Circle
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American nonprofit organization (501(c)(3)) with more than 700 members. It is the professional association of American book review editors and critics, known primarily for the N ...
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Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize ( Spanish), the Camões Prize ( Portuguese), t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Transit Of Venus
''The Transit of Venus'' is a 1980 novel written by Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".1980 Australian novels Novels set in Sydney PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning works [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathedral (short Story Collection)
''Cathedral'' is the third major-press collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, published in 1983. Reception ''Cathedral'' was enthusiastically received by critics. In ''The New York Times book Review'', critic Irving Howe wrote: ''The Washington Post'' wrote that "there are no arid places in ''Cathedral''. Instead there are a dozen stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life." The stories The collection contains the following stories: *"Feathers" - A couple visit another couple who have a peacock and a baby. *" Chef's House" - Wes rents Chef's house by the ocean and asks wife Edna to come live with him again. *"Preservation" - Sandy's husband has taken to the sofa since he lost his job as a roofer three months before. *"The Compartment" - Myers, vacationing in Europe, takes a train to meet his son, who he hasn't seen in eight years. *"A Small, Good Thing" - An extended version of his earlier short story "The Bath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ironweed (novel)
''Ironweed'' is a 1983 novel by William Kennedy. It received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is the third book in Kennedy's Albany Cycle. It is included in the Western Canon of the critic Harold Bloom. Plot summary ''Ironweed'' is set during the Great Depression and tells the story of Francis Phelan, a bum originally from Albany, New York, who left his family after accidentally killing his infant son. The novel focuses on Francis's return (after being gone twenty-two years) to Albany over the triduum of All Hallows Eve, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day; moreover, a surreal element is added to the narrative as Phelan sees and tries to interact with dead people from his troubled past. The novel features characters that are present in some of Kennedy's other Albany Cycle books. Adaptations Kennedy wrote the screenplay for the 1987 film version directed by Héctor Babenco and starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Major portions of the film were shot on location in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Color Purple
''The Color Purple'' is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction."National Book Awards – 1983" National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-01-26. (With essays by Anna Clark and Tarayi Jones from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Walker won the 1983 award for hardcover Fiction. From 1980 to 1983 in National Book Awards history there were dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories. Most of the pap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiloh And Other Stories
''Shiloh and Other Stories'' is a 1982 collection of short stories written by American author Bobbie Ann Mason. The collection won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation award for fiction. The collection brought Mason her first critical acclaim. The short story alluded to in the collection's title, "Shiloh", revolves around a man named Leroy who lives in rural Kentucky and is forced to quit his job as a truck driver after an accident. The plot centers around his attempt to adjust to life after the accident, while at the same time facing problems with his marriage and attempting to cope with the urbanization Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It is predominantly t ... of his neighborhood, which was once a community of farmers. The story ends with Leroy and his wife Norma Jean visiting the battlefi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant
''Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant'' is a 1982 novel by Anne Tyler, set in Baltimore, Maryland. It is Tyler's ninth novel. In 1983 it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Tyler considers it her best work. The book follows the lives of three siblings: Cody, Ezra, and Jenny, and explores their experiences and recollections of growing up with their mother, Pearl, after the family is deserted by their father, Beck. The novel ends with Pearl's funeral, and a surprise occurrence. The novel examines how siblings may share the same events yet experience them differently; e.g. Cody remembers his childhood as a harsh time. He blames himself for his father abandoning him and considers himself left to the mercy of an angry mother who favors Ezra. Meanwhile, Ezra remembers his childhood fondly and creates a nostalgic family-themed restaurant. Plot Pearl Tull is a rigid perfectionist. She has three children with her husband, traveling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mills (novel)
''George Mills'' is a 1982 novel by American author Stanley Elkin, published by E. P. Dutton. The novel, set in five parts, tells the family history of succeeding generations of characters named George Mills. The story covers more than 1,000 years from the First Crusade in Europe to the Ottoman Empire to present-day America. Elkin won the 1982 National Book Critics Circle Award in the fiction category for the novel. Elkin mentioned ''George Mills'' as one of his favorite novels. The novel is considered Elkin's "longest and most complexly organized work". Plot The first George Mills sets out on a journey with his lord on the First Crusade. But he eventually gets lost in the Netherlands and reaches a salt mine in Poland. His lord at the mines is Guillalume, who teaches him some life lessons. Mills becomes aware of what is written in his fate and this helps him understand the walks of life in this world in a better manner. Despite having the knowledge of what would happen in the fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixty Stories (book)
''Sixty Stories'' is a collection of sixty short stories written by Donald Barthelme, several of which originally appeared in ''The New Yorker''. The book was first published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1981. Stories ''Sixty Stories'' includes works from the writer's first six short-story collections: ''Come Back, Dr. Caligari'' (1964), ''Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts'' (1968), ''City Life'' (1970), ''Sadness'' (1972), ''Amateurs'' (1976), and ''Great Days'' (1979). The full contents are as follows: * Margins * A Shower of Gold * Me and Miss Mandible * For I'm the Boy * Will You Tell Me? * The Balloon * The President * Game * Alice * Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning * Report * The Dolt * See the Moon? * The Indian Uprising * Views of My Father Weeping * Paraguay * On Angels * The Phantom of the Opera's Friend * City Life * Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel * The Falling Dog * The Policemen's Ball * The Glass Mountain * Critique de la Vie Quotidienne * The Sandman * Traume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riddley Walker
''Riddley Walker'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Russell Hoban, first published in 1980. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel in 1982, as well as an Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award in 1983. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981. It is Hoban's best-known adult novel and a drastic departure from his other work, although he continued to explore some of the same themes in other settings. Production Hoban began work on the novel in 1974, inspired by the medieval wall painting of the legend of Saint Eustace at Canterbury Cathedral. The novel is written in a stylistic, imaginary dialect based on and inspired by the dialect of Kent. Plot Roughly two thousand years after a nuclear war has devastated civilization, Riddley, the young narrator, stumbles upon efforts to recreate a weapon of the ancient world. The novel's characters live a harsh life in a small area which is presently the English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabbit Is Rich
''Rabbit Is Rich'' is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel of the tetralogy that begins with ''Rabbit, Run'', continues with ''Rabbit Redux'', and concludes with ''Rabbit at Rest''. There is also a related novella, '' Rabbit Remembered'' (2001). ''Rabbit Is Rich'' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction"National Book Awards - 1982" National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-15. (With essays by Amity Gaige and Nancy Werlin and from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)This was the 1982 award for hardcover Fiction. From 1980 to 1983 in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second Coming (Percy Novel)
''The Second Coming'' is a novel by Walker Percy. It is a sequel to '' The Last Gentleman''. It tells the story of middle-aged Will Barrett and his relationship with Allison, a young woman who has escaped from a mental hospital. The book was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1980. The novel spends much of its content in unspoken but printed dialog of Will Barrett (the principal character) with himself and/or people he has dealt with in his past. He talks his way through his memories and realizes he is a character who suffers from the affliction that his father had: the belief that life – as most people (including him) live it – is worse than death. His father's solution was to kill himself (as did Percy's own father and grandfather), but his father also opted to try to kill him (Will), in order to save him from the life of despair that his father knows will befall him. He reflects on these occurrences throughout the book. Barrett decides he wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |