|
To locate free audio book downloads from libraries, click on the title |
THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS - 1994 |
| Pulitzer Prize |
| Man Booker Prize |
| The National Book Awards |
| The Audie Awards |
| MAN BOOKER |
|
© 2006, 2007 ScrollInfo
Powered by © Amazon.com |
| 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! How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman "Ye wake in a corner and stay there hoping yer body will disappear, the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can ye no do it; the words filling yer head: then the other words; there`s something wrong; there`s something far far wrong; ye`re no a good man, ye`re just no a good man." From the moment Sammy wakes slumped in a park corner, stiff and sore after a two-day drunk and wearing another man`s shoes, James Kelman`s Booker Prize-winning novel How Late it Was, How Late loosens a torrent of furious stream-of-consciousness prose that never lets up. Beaten savagely by Glasgow police, the shoplifting ex-con Sammy is hauled off to jail, where he w... Read more... |
| Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown 1994 Booker Prizeshort-listed story of Thorfinn Ragnarson`s dreams re-living his birthplace Read more... |
| Reef by Romesh Gunesekera "Exotic," "spicy," and "delicious" are adjectives rarely applied to first novels; however, Reef had critics on both sides of the Atlantic smacking their lips. Reef is the coming-of-age story of Triton, a talented young chef so committed to pleasing his master`s palate that he is oblivious to the political unrest threatening his Sri Lanka paradise. The London Times called it "incessantly pleasurable," and Booklist writes, "After slowly and reverently savoring Gunesekera`s debut novel, it`s easy to see why this flawless book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize." Read more... |
| The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst In self-imposed exile in an ancient Flemish city, an embittered 33-year-old language tutor, Edward Manners, falls in love with his alluring 17-year-old pupil, Luc Altidore. As Edward pursues the elusive object of his infatuation--and plunges into affairs with two other men--this book interweaves past and present, history and memory, into a tapestry of unfulfillable desire. Read more... |
| Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh "Ye wake in a corner and stay there hoping yer body will disappear, the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can ye no do it; the words filling yer head: then the other words; there`s something wrong; there`s something far far wrong; ye`re no a good man, ye`re just no a good man." From the moment Sammy wakes slumped in a park corner, stiff and sore after a two-day drunk and wearing another man`s shoes, James Kelman`s Booker Prize-winning novel How Late it Was, How Late loosens a torrent of furious stream-of-consciousness prose that never lets up. Beaten savagely by Glasgow police, the shoplifting ex-con Sammy is hauled off to jail, where he w... Read more... |
| MAN BOOKER AWARD WINNERS AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD |