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1979 Awards

28Mar By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1979 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1979 Nebula - Novel WinnerDreamsnakeVonda N. McIntyreSnake travels the land with her serpents, the rattlesnake Sand, the cobra Mist and the rare alien dreamsnake called Grass, whose bite can ease the fear and pain of death. But the blasted landscape of a far-future post-holocaust Earth is a dangerous place, ...Amazon1979 Nebula - Novel ShortlistBlind VoicesTom ReamyAmazonKalkiGore VidalAmazonStrangersGardner DozoisAmazonThe Faded Sun: KesrithC. J. CherryhAmazon
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1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerAshes and 7 Years from SomewherePhilip Levine...Amazon1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBlue Wine and Other PoemsJohn HollanderAmazonGoshawk, AntelopeDavid SmithAmazonNotes From the CastleHoward MossAmazonThe Venetian VespersAnthony HechtAmazon
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1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerMunich: The Price of PeaceTelford Taylor...Amazon1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAfrican Calliope: A Journey to the SudanEdward HoaglandAmazonGodel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BrainDouglas HofstadterAmazonThe Right StuffTom WolfeAmazonThe White AlbumJoan DidionAmazon
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1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Year of the FrenchThomas FlanaganIn 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebell...Amazon1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistKing of the Jews: A Novel of the HolocaustLeslie EpsteinAmazonSleepless NightsElizabeth HardwickAmazonSophie’s ChoiceWilliam StyronAmazonThe Executioner’s Song: A True Life NovelNorman MailerAmazonThe Ghost WriterPhilip RothAmazon
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1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Gnostic GospelsElaine PagelsAs discussed in The Da Vinci Code... Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus. In 1945 fifty-two papyrus texts, including gospels and other secret documents, were found concealed in an...Amazon1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistA Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of StendhalRobert Alter with Carol CosmanAmazonAmerica Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth CenturyFrances FitzGeraldAmazonDecadence: The Strange Life of an EpithetRichard GilmanAmazonThe Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary ImaginationSandra M. Gilbert & Susan GubarAmazon
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1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1979 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1979 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerGlorianaMichael MoorcockAlbion, the kingdom of Queen Gloriana I and her devious and power hungry court are the setting of this award-winning fantasy reimagining of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, through a dark lens....Amazon1979 John W. Campbell - Novel Shortlist...And Having Writ...Donald R. BensenAmazonAltered StatesPaddy ChayefskyAmazon
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1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThere's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to DoMichael OndaatjeSelected and new poems offer glimpses of a private world in which images of horror are viewed through mirrors and prisms and in which madmen and animals inhabit a landscape of fearful natural beauty...Amazon1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistA Man to Marry, a Man to BurySusan MusgraveAmazonEmpire, York StreetErin MouréAmazon
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1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerEmily Carr: A BiographyMaria TippettNo artist has expressed the mood, mystery, and soul of Canadas west coast as Emily Carr did in her landscape art and novels. This biography captures the originality of mind, fierce and independent spirit, and extraordinary productivity of a woman who defi...Amazon1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistC.D. HoweRobert Bothwell and William KilbournAmazonPrairie CapitalismLarry Pratt and John RichardsAmazon
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1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Resurrection of Joseph BourneJack HodginsWhen an unknown woman steps off a beached Peruvian freighter and walks into the Vancouver Island town of Port Annie, nothing can ever be quite the same. Stalwart citizens, tired of their milltown routine, grasp at a fresh subject for gossip. Others are sud...Amazon1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistLife Before ManMargaret AtwoodAmazonThe Sweet Second Summer of Kitty MaloneMatt CohenAmazon
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