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P. D. James – The Children of Men. Denis Johnson – Jesus' Son (short story collection) John Kessel – Meeting in Infinity. Stephen King. Dolores Claiborne. Gerald's Game. Patrick McCabe – The Butcher Boy. Cormac McCarthy – All the Pretty Horses (Book 1 of the Border Trilogy) Val McDermid – Dead Beat.
- Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (1990) The Things They Carried was O’Brien’s third book about Vietnam, but it’s frequently heralded as one of the best books ever written about the war.
- Tony Kushner, Angels in America (1991) Look, a play! Kushner’s Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes was a huge hit and subject of national discussion when it was first performed, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play.
- Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son (1992) I don’t know about its national importance, necessarily, but this here is a literary website, and few books have had as direct and intense an impact on the literary world as Johnson’s cult story collection.
- Donna Tartt, The Secret History (1992) “How best to describe Donna Tartt’s enthralling first novel?” wondered Michiko Kakutani in a 1992 review. “Imagine the plot of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment crossed with the story of Euripides’ Bacchae set against the backdrop of Bret Easton Ellis’s Rules of Attraction and told in the elegant, ruminative voice of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited.
- The Secret History Donna Tartt.
- Small Gods (Discworld, #13) Terry Pratchett.
- The English Patient Michael Ondaatje.
- The Pelican Brief John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
Dec 6, 1992 · BECOMING A MAN: Half a Life Story. By Paul Monette. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $19.95.) A probing and provocative memoir, affirmative and even celebratory, of a gay man's journey from "internal ...
She’s Come Undone. Wally Lamb. 3.91. 347k ratings. 474k shelvings. Want to read. In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet Dolores Price.
The Secret History- The Pelican Brief
- She's Come Undone
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 was awarded to Derek Walcott "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment". To cite this section. MLA style: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992.
The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history. 1992 Literary Facts. 1992. Sherman Alexie publishes I Would Steal Horses. 1992.
