Award Winning Books by
WARD JUST
| | From a distinguished chronicler of American social history and
political culture, An Unfinished Season captures the 1950s hauntingly. In a time of rabid anticommunism, worker unrest, and government corruption, even the small-town family could not escape the nationwide suspicion and dread of "the enemy within."
In rural Quarterday, on Chicago"s North Shore, nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan wa...
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| | Ward Just's twelfth novel penetrates deeply into America's role in the world. Set in Indochina in 1965, A DANGEROUS FRIEND tells a story of "the devolution of an innocent American crusading for democracy" (VANITY FAIR), a man living the conflict of so many Americans caught in a political and spiritual crossfire. Sydney Parade, a political scientist, has left home and family in an effort to become ...
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| | Here is Just's masterpiece - an epic chronicle of three generations of Washington power brokers and the womenfolk who loved them (except when they didn't). The Washington Post described this book as "a fascinating if ultimately painful fairy tale, complete with a family curse. The decline of the Behls represents the decline of Washington from the bright dawn of the American century into the gather...
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| Major Prize* Nominations |
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| Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* |
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| Pulitzer Prize Wins |
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| Pulitzer Prize Nominations |
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An Unfinished Season · |
| National Book Critics Circle Award Wins |
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| National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations |
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| National Book Award Wins |
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| National Book Award Nominations |
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Echo House · |
| Man Booker Prize Wins |
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| Man Booker Prize Nominations |
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| PEN/Faulkner Award Wins |
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| PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations |
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*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award
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23 reviews (2004) (256p)
22 reviews (1999) (256p)
