National Book Award for Fiction Öffentlich

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Winners of the National Book Award for Fiction (known as the American Book Award from 1980-1983).

  1. Herzog von 

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    A multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption.

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1965 for Fiction

  2. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter von 

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    Katherine Anne Porter's recent novel Ship of Fools was an enormous popular and critical success. But it is for her …

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1966 for Fiction

  3. The Fixer von 

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    The Fixer is the story of a little man, a handy-man, who becomes a hero before our eyes. Yakov Bok …

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1967 for Fiction

  4. The Eighth Day von 

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    The story of The Eighth Day begins in Coaltown, Illinois, in 1902, with Breckenridge Lansing's murder and John Ashley's trial, …

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1968 for Fiction

  5. Steps von 

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    I focused the flashlight toward the sound. A large cage was suspended from the rafters. Formed of metal grating, it …

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1969 for Fiction

  6. Slaughterhouse-five von 

    Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction infused anti-war novel by Kurt …

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1970 for Fiction

  7. them von 

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    Loretta Wendell, her daughter Maureen, and her son Jules are "them"— three characters held to-gether by corroding hatred and mute …

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1970 for Fiction

  8. Mr. Sammler’s Planet von 

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    A tall old man, blind in one eye, born in Cracow but with Oxonian manners and the face of a …

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1971 for Fiction

  9. The Complete Stories von 

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    This book brings together for the first time the complete stories—thirty-one in all—of one of the great American writers of …

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1972 for Fiction

  10. Augustus von 

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    It was more nearly an instinct than knowledge, however, that made me understand that if it is one's destiny to …

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1973 for Fiction

  11. Chimera von 

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    "At this point I interrupted my sister as usual to say, 'You have a way with words, Scheherazade. This is …

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1973 for Fiction

  12. A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories von 

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    "If there is such a thing as truth," Mr. Singer writes at the end of the title story in this …

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1974 for Fiction

  13. Gravity's Rainbow von 

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    A screaming comes across the sky . . . . .

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1974 for Fiction

  14. The Hair of Harold Roux von 

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    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1975 for Fiction

  15. Dog Soldiers von 

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    In 1967 Robert Stone was awarded the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for his first novel, A Hall of Mirrors. …

    Phil in SF sagt:

    Winner, National Book Awards 1975 for Fiction

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