Annal:1976 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Man Booker Prize in the year 1976. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1976 Booker winner
- Score: 10.26
Set in South Yorkshire, this is the story of Colin’s struggle to come to terms with his family—his mercurial, ambitious father, his deep-feeling, long-suffering mother—and to escape the stifling heritage of the raw mining community into which he was born.
- 1976 Booker shortlist
- Score: 6.26
Awaiting her husband’s arrival on holiday in France, Sheila Redden, quiet, middle-aged doctor’s wife, suddenly finds herself caught up in a passionate affair with a young American, ten years her junior.
