Annal:1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 1989. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1989 LATimes–Fiction winner
- Score: 10.39
Set in a small Somerset town—Jane Austen country— Weldon’s novel is about a marriage gone awry.
The Joy Luck Club: A Novel
- 1989 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- 1989 NBA–Fiction finalist
- Score: 12.39
In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and “say” stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother’s lifelong wish-and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation of this secret unleashes an urgent need among the women to reach back and remember…
In this extraordinary first work of fiction, Amy Tan writes…
