Annal:1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest

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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 1983. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest
Nonfiction books
Nonfiction authors.

<–1982
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
1984–>

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Walker Percy

1983 LATimes–Current Interest winner
Score: 10.33

Walker Percy’s mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind’s tendency toward heavy abstraction. This favorite of Percy fans continues to charm and beguile readers of all tastes and backgrounds. Lost in the Cosmos invites us to think about how we communicate with our world.

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