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THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS - 1986 |
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| The Man Booker Prize for Fiction represents the very best in contemporary fiction. One of the world's most prestigious awards, and one of incomparable influence, it continues to be the pinnacle of ambition for every fiction writer. It has the power to transform the fortunes of authors, and even publishers. |
| Winner! The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis Do people ever really grow up? The old devils in this book are just as they have always been, but trapped in a slowly aging body. It`s like living in a house that needs repair, but the repairman never comes. Amis received the Booker Prize, Britian`s highest literary honor, in 1986 for THE OLD DEVILS. Read more... |
| The Handmaid`s Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood In the world of the near future, who will control women`s bodies? is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. Read more... |
| Gabriel`s Lament by Paul Bailey In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono`s wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster. What`s left for Ono? Ishiguro`s treatment of this story earned a 1986 Whitbread Prize.This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggl... Read more... |
| What`s Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy) by Robertson Davies In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono`s wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster. What`s left for Ono? Ishiguro`s treatment of this story earned a 1986 Whitbread Prize.This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggl... Read more... |
| An Artist of the Floating World (Vintage International) by Kazuo Ishiguro In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono`s wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster. What`s left for Ono? Ishiguro`s treatment of this story earned a 1986 Whitbread Prize.This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggl... Read more... |
| An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo In the world of the near future, who will control women`s bodies? is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. Read more... |
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