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Plan of the Series . xv Hoteldu Lac (1984), by Anita Brookner ........ .159 Introduction xvii Mary L. Bogumii Something to Answer For (1969), by P. H. Newby ..... .3 The Bone People (1985), by Keri Hulme 167 Russell Greer Blake G. Hobby the Elected Member (1970), by Bernice Rubens 12 The Old Devils (1986), by Kingsley Amis . 175 Annette Rubery Merritt Moseley In a Free State (1971), by V. S. Naipaul . .20 Moon Tiger (1987), by Penelope Lively 185 Micholas Birns David Thomson G. (1972), by John Berger .30 Oscar and Luanda (1988), by Peter Carey 197 Alice Ferrebe Graeme Harper The Siege ofKrishnapur (1973), byj. G. Farrell ...... .40 The Remains of the Day (1989), Michael C. Prusse by Kazuo Ishiguro . 205 Holiday (1974), by Stanley Middleton . .48 Malcolm Page Russell Greer Possession (1990), by A. S. Byatt 212 The Conservationist (1974), by Nadine Gordimer .... .57 Helen Clare Taylor Merritt Moseley The Famished Road (1991), by Ben Okri 224 Heat and Dust (1975), by Ruth Prawerjhabvala 69 Blake G. Hobby Jayne L. Brazier The English Patient (1992), Saville (1976), by David Storey . .80 by Michael Ondaatje 232 Nicolas Iredell Lorena Russell Staying On (1977), by Paul Scott . .89 Sacred Hunger (1992), by Barry Unsworth 241 Michael C. Prusse Cedle M. Jagodzinski The Sea, The Sea (1978), by Iris Murdoch 100 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993), Cheryl K. Bove by Roddy Doyle 251 David Brendan Hopes Offshore (1979), by Penelope Fitzgerald .......... .110 Rob Spence How Late It Was, How Late (1994), : •:• Rites (f Passage (1980), by William Golding ...... .120 by James Kelman ........................... .258 Michael C. Prusse Graeme Macdonald Midnights Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie .... .129 The Ghost Road (1995), by Pat Barker ........ .-, .267: John J. Su Nicolas Tredell Schindler's Ark (1982), by Thomas Keneaily ...... .138 Last Orders (1996), by Graham Swift 276 decile M. Jagodzinski Michael C. Prusse Life and Times of 'MichaelK (1983), The God of Small Things (1997), :•. byj. M. Coetzee ..... 150 by Arundhati Roy .... .287 Merritt Moseley Cynthia Ho Xlll Contents DLB 326 Amsterdam (1998), by Ian McEwan 296 Vernon God Little (2003), by DBC Pierre ......... 342 Michael R. Molino Gillian Fenwick Disgrace (1999), byj. M. Goetzee 305 The Line of Beauty (2004), Andrew Biswell by Alan Hollinghurst . 348 the Blind Assassin (2000), Merritt Moseley by Margaret Atwood 313 Susan Watkins The Sea (2005), by John Banville ........ ... 356 Merritt Moseley true History of the Kelly Gang (2001), by Peter Carey 325 Merritt Moseley Checklist for Further Reading. 365 Life of Pi (2002), by Yann Martel 334 Contributors 367 Pamela Cooper Cumulative Index 371 xiv PPN: 256749647 Titel: Booker Prize novels : 1969 - 2005 / ed. by Merritt Moseley. - Detroit, Mich. [u.a.] : Thomson Gale, 2006 ISBN: 0-7876-8144-Xhardcoveralk. paper Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund.

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