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THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS - 1988 |
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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! Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition (Vintage... by Peter Carey Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher`s kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders the seminal turning points in his protagonists` childhoods as exquisite 19th-century set pieces. Young Oscar, denied the heavenly fruit of a Christmas pudding by his cruelly stern father, forever renounces his father`s religion in favor of the Anglican Church. "Dear God," Oscar prays, "if it be Thy will that Thy people eat pudding, smite him!" Lucinda`s childhood trauma involves a beautiful doll bought by her struggling mother with savings f... Read more... |
| Utz by Bruce Chatwin Bruce Chatwin`s bestselling novel traces the fortunes of Kaspar Utz, an enigmatic collector of Meissen porcelain living in Cold War Czechoslovakia. Although Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and considers defecting each time, he always returns to his Czech home, a prisoner of the Communist state and of his precious collection. Read more... |
| The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald In March 1913, Frank Reid`s wife abruptly leaves him and Moscow for her native England. Naturally, she takes their daughters and son with her. The children, however, only make it as far as the train station--and even after returning home remain unaffected by their brief exile. "They ought either to be quieter or more noisy than before," their father thinks, "and it was disconcerting that they seemed to be exactly the same." Frank`s routines, however, drift into disorder as he tries desperately to take charge of life at home and work. Even his printing plant is suddenly confronted by the specters of modernization and utter instability. Frank Reid is a struggling printer in Moscow. On the eve of the Revolution, his wife returns to her native ... Read more... |
| Nice Work (King Penguin) by David Lodge Read more... |
| The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie`s The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie`s powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner.<... Read more... |
| Below Another Sky: A Mountain Adventure in Search of a ... by Rick Ridgeway On October 13, 1980, alpinists Rick Ridgeway and Yvon Chouinard, in company with National Geographic photographer Jonathan Wright, were struggling up the slopes of the little-explored Tibetan mountain Minya Konka when an avalanche swallowed them. Wright, only 28 years old, died. As he did, Ridgeway writes, "something left him. I saw it." The survivors buried Wright in a rocky grave on Minya Konka`s flanks and, dispirited, returned home with the haunting vision of that death always in their memories. Read more... |
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