Annal:1982 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
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Results of the National Book Critics Circle Award in the year 1982. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1982 NBCC–Fiction winner
- Score: 10.32
An ambitious‚ digressive‚ and endlessly entertaining account of the thousand-year history of the George Millses‚ George Mills is the antithesis to the typical Horatio Alger story.
Since the First Crusade‚ there has always been a George Mills‚ who—despite his best efforts—is unable to improve his position in life or that of his descendants. Instead‚ all the George Millses are forced to accept their lot as true blue-collar workers‚ serving important personages in a series of odd jobs ranging from horse talker in a salt mine to working as a furniture…
- 1983 NBA–Fiction finalist
- 1983 PEN-faulkner finalist
- 1982 NBCC–Fiction finalist
- Score: 18.33
“These stories will last,” said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In “Shiloh”, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky people and the lives they forge for themselves amid the ups and downs of contemporary American life, and she poignantly captures the growing pains of the New South in the lives of her characters as they come to terms with feminism, R-rated movies, and video…
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel
- 1983 NBA–Fiction finalist
- 1983 PEN-faulkner finalist
- 1983 Pulitzer–fiction finalist
- 1982 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- 1982 NBCC–Fiction finalist
- Score: 30.33
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together—with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell….
