1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner

The Second Coming: A Novel
Walker Percy
A successful man’s midlife crisis may just provide a twisted path to happiness in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of The Last Gentleman. Now in his late forties, Will Barrett lives a life other men only dream of. Wealthy from a successf…
1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Shortlist

A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole

Bellefleur
Joyce Carol Oates

Darkness Visible
William Golding
