1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner
![The White Hotel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580940226-60158-image-3.jpg)
The White Hotel
D.M. Thomas
It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an…
1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Shortlist
![Dad: A Novel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581029859-6301-image-3.jpg)
Dad: A Novel
William Wharton
![Ellis Island and Other Stories](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580864908-157-image-3.jpg)
Ellis Island and Other Stories
Mark Helprin
![The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581032441-6514-image-3.jpg)
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
![The Stories of Ray Bradbury](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580956674-1726-image-3.jpg)
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
![Zuckerman Unbound](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580937112-59900-image-3.jpg)