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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry Winnered., Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. SissmanPeter Davison...Amazon1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistNew & Selected Things Taking PlaceMay SwensonAmazonSpectral Emanations: New and Selected PoemsJohn HollanderAmazonThe Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977Adrienne RichAmazonThe Late HourMark StrandAmazon
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1978 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1978 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Dragons of EdenCarl Sagan“A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight.”—The New York Times Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain ...Amazon
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1978 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1978 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American BusinessAlfred D. Chandler, Jr.The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, s...Amazon
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards - Novel

1978 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1978 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerOur Lady of DarknessFritz LeiberIn Conjure Wife, Norman Saylor strains the limits of conjugal love when he learns that his own wife is a practicing sorceress, and in Our Lady of Darkness, horror writer Westen discovers dark forces in San Francisco. Reprint....Amazon1978 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverStephen R. DonaldsonAmazonThe Hour of the Oxrun DeadCharles L. GrantAmazon
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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, 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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