Annal:1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 1990. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Lantern Slides: Stories
- 1990 LATimes–Fiction winner
- Score: 10.4
Lantern Slides reveals the wit and passion of an author at the height of her powers. Rich and humorous, full of bitterness and despair, struggle and boldness, these twelve new stories resonate with O’Brien’s artistry.
- 1990 Governor General's finalists
- 1990 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- Score: 12.4
The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.
Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas
- 1990 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- Score: 6.4
“Smiley’s stories lucidly explore the complexities of contemporary sexual and dometic life…the emotional and moral complexity that she uncovers in the characters of these resonant novellas confirms Jane Smiley’s singular talent. Ordinary Love and Good Will is an extraordinary achievement.” —The Washington Post Book World
Ordinary Love: At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father—and changed all their lives irrevoccably.
Good Will: Despite the carefully…
