Book of The Year
Winner:
- David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?
Read more about this topic: 1980 Whitbread Awards
Famous quotes containing the words book of, book and/or year:
“This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“And she straiked me three times o’er her knee;
She changed me again to my ain proper shape,
And I nae mair maun toddle about the tree.”
—Unknown. Alison Gross. . .
Oxford Book of Ballads, The. James Kinsley, ed. (1969)
“Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.”
—Truman Capote (1924–1984)