Annal:1984 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
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Results of the Governor General's Literary Award in the year 1984. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1984 Governor General's winner
- Score: 10.34
As adventuresome, episodic, bawdy, comic, and literary as any novel written in the past twenty-five years, The Engineer of Human Souls is worthy of the subtitle Skvorecky gave it: “An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents, Love and Death.”
