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Booker Prize novels, 1969-2005

Moseley, Merritt, 1949- (Added Author).

Summary: The Booker Prize, renamed in 2002 to the Man Booker Prize, is the most prestigious literary award given in the United Kingdom and one of the two or three most esteemed such awards in the world and confers literary recognition on novels that reflect and portray the state of culture. Discusses the impact the Booker Prize had on the world of books, the history of the Booker Prize, the rules and judging, and the various controversies that arose over awarding this prize.

Item details

ISBN: 078768144X
ISBN: 9780787681449
Physical Description: print
application/pdf
xx, 467 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 29 cm.
Publisher: Detroit : Thomson Gale, ©2006.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book." Biographical entries on Booker Prize winning novels and authors.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Something to answer for (1969), by P.H. Newby / Russell Greer -- The elected member (1970), by Bernice Rubens / Annette Rubery -- In a free state (1971), by V.S. Naipaul / Nicholas Birns -- G (1972), by John Berger / Alice Ferrebe -- The siege of Krishnapur (1973), by J.G. Farrell / Michael C. Prusse -- Holiday (1974), by Stanley Middleton / Russell Greer -- The conservationist (1974), by Nadine Gordimer / Merritt Moseley -- Heat and dust (1975), by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala / Jayne L. Brazier -- Saville (1976), by David Storey / Nicolas Tredell -- Staying on (1977), by Paul Scott / Michael C. Prusse -- The sea, the sea (1978), by Iris Murdoch / Cheryl K. Bove -- Offshore (1979), by Penelope Fitzgerald / Rob Spence -- Rites of passage (1980), by William Golding / Michael C. Prusse -- Midnight's children (1981), by Salman Rushdie / John J. Su -- Schindler's ark (1982), by Thomas Keneally / Cecile M. Jagodzinski -- Life and times of Michael K (1983), by J.M. Coetzee / Merritt Moseley -- Hotel du Lac (1984), by Anita Brookner / Mary L. Bogumil --The bone people (1985), by Keri Hulme / Blake G. Hobby -- The old devils (1986), by Kingsley Amis / Merritt Moseley -- Moon tiger (1987), by Penelope Lively / David Thomson -- Oscar and Lucinda (1988), by Peter Carey / Graeme Harper -- The remains of the day (1989), by Kazuo Ishiguro / Malcolm Page -- Possesion (1990), by A.S. Byatt / Helen Clare Taylor -- The famished road (1991), by Ben Okri / Blake G. Hobby -- The English patient (1992), by Michael Ondaatje / Lorena Russell -- Sacred hunger (1992), by Barry Unsworth / Cecile M. Jagodzinski -- Paddy Clarke ha ha ha (1993), by Roddy Doyle / David Brendan Hopes -- How late it was, how late (1994), by James Kelman / Graeme Macdonald -- The ghost road (1995), by Pat Barker / Nicolas Tredell -- Last orders (1996), by Graham Swift / Michael C. Prusse -- The god of small things (1997), by Arundhati Roy / Cynthia Ho -- Amsterdam (1998), by Ian McEwan / Michael R. Molino -- Disgrace (1999), by J.M. Coetzee / Andrew Biswell -- The blind assassin (2000), by Margaret Atwood / Susan Watkins -- True history of the Kelly Gang (2001), by Peter Carey / Merritt Moseley -- Life of Pi (2002), by Yann Martel / Pamela Cooper -- Vernon God Little (2003), by D.B.C. Pierre / Gillian Fenwick -- The line of beauty (2004), by Alan Hollinghurst / Merritt Moseley -- The sea (2005), by John Banville / Merritt Moseley.