Annal:1972 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
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Results of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the year 1972. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
G: A Novel
- 1972 Booker winner
- 1972 JT Black-Fiction winner
- Score: 20.22
In this luminous novel—winner of Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize—John Berger relates the story of “G.,” a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of the Don Juan’s success: his essential loneliness, the quiet cumulation in each of his sexual experiences of all of those that precede it, the tenderness that infuses even the briefest of his encounters, and the way women…
