Award Winning Books by
ANDREA BARRETT
| Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman afire with scientific curiosity must come to terms with a romantic fantasy. Brothers and sisters, to...
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| Capturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration, the mid-nineteenth-century romance with the Arctic, Andrea Barrett focuses on a particular expedition and its accompanying scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells. Through his eyes, we meet the Narwhal's crew and its commander--obsessed with the search for an open polar sea--and encounter the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterp...
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| A collection of stories that consider the struggles of love includes the title work, in which a young Canadian doctor, treating Irish immigrants who have been driven out by the Great Famine, experiences one of history's most tragic epidemics. By the author of The Middle Kingdom. ...
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Andrea Barrett Award Stats |
Major Prize* Nominations |
4 |
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Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* |
3 |
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Pulitzer Prize Wins |
0 |
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Pulitzer Prize Nominations |
1 |
Servants of the Map: Stories · |
National Book Critics Circle Award Wins |
0 |
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National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations |
0 |
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National Book Award Wins |
1 |
Ship Fever and Other Stories · |
National Book Award Nominations |
1 |
Ship Fever and Other Stories · |
Man Booker Prize Wins |
0 |
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Man Booker Prize Nominations |
0 |
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PEN/Faulkner Award Wins |
0 |
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PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations |
0 |
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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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