Annal:1979 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
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Results of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the year 1979. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1979 JT Black-Fiction winner
- 1980 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- Score: 16.29
At the height of the London blitz, a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved yet hideously scarred, tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him: twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence, Sophy in sexual tyranny.
As Golding weaves their destinies together, as he draws them toward a final conflagration, his book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.
