1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner
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Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
The first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a fictional landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become iconic – Love Medicine is the story of three generations of Ojibwe families. Set against the tumultuous politics of the rese…
1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Shortlist
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Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid
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Empire of the Sun
J.G. Ballard
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Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner
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