1994 Book Award Winners

Quoyle is a large, damp, unhappy man who fails at newspapers in upstate New York and is married to Petal Bear, who despises him and does not...

Sammy Samuels wakes up in a Glasgow lane after a two day drinking session, gets into an argument with some plain clothes police, takes a beating,...

Oscar Crease, middle aged instructor of American history and grandson of a Supreme Court justice, has been run over by his own car, a Japanese...

Daisy Goodwill is born in 1905 on a kitchen floor in a Manitoba quarry town, to a mother so large she did not know she was pregnant and who dies...

Operation Shylock, subtitled A Confession, is narrated by a novelist named Philip Roth, a Jewish American writer in his fifties who is recovering...

David Remnick arrived in Moscow as The Washington Post's correspondent in 1988, near the start of the changes Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of...

David Levering Lewis's biography, the first of two volumes, follows W. E. B. Du Bois from his 1868 birth in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in a...

How We Die is exactly what its title promises, a surgeon's chapter by chapter account of what actually happens to the body in the ways most of us...

Jones's governing conceit does real work: genetics is a language, DNA a text copied and miscopied down generations, and the genome therefore a...

Neon Vernacular combines new poems with a wide selection from Yusef Komunyakaa's earlier books, moving between three bodies of material that recur...

The Annals of Chile carries two of the great elegies of late twentieth century poetry, and they are elegies only Paul Muldoon could have written,...

Fifty years after the failed revolution that closed Red Mars, the survivors of the First Hundred are hiding in a polar refuge under assumed names...

Casseia Majumdar is a student at the University of Mars, Sinai, when she joins a protest and gets herself thrown out along with several thousand...

The freighter Morris leaves Long Beach carrying boxcars, a small crew, and a handful of passengers who could not or would not fly: a doctor and his...

Ray Shackleford repairs stereos in Austin, Texas, and he is approaching forty. His marriage to Elizabeth is failing, his hopes of playing rock...

Olive Martin dismembered her mother and sister in the family kitchen, arranged the pieces, and confessed: that is the record and the press named...

Twelve year old Jonas lives in a tightly controlled community that has organized itself around Sameness, a system that eliminated pain, conflict,...

Allen Say tells his own grandfather's story: a young man leaves Japan during the Meiji era to cross the Pacific and see America, and falls in love...

Bird, a twenty seven year old Japanese man who spends much of his time fantasizing about a walking tour of Africa he will probably never take,...