Annal:1974 National Book Award for Fiction
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Results of the National Book Award in the year 1974. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1974 NBA–Fiction winner
- 1973 Nebula nominee
- Score: 16.24
Tyrone Slothrop is an archetypal innocent abroad, but in the worst possible circumstances: he’s an American on a mission to locate V-2 rocket-launching sites in war-torn Europe. On a larger level, the novel illustrates the struggle between those who perceive and rebel against the war, seeing it as an overt movement toward the obliteration of the individual, and those who suppress individual identity to serve the war machine controlled by “Them.” Which side Slothrop is on remains highly ambiguous. An encyclopedic work much like Joyce’s Ulysses, this is…
