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Upon receiving the 2023 NBCC Award for Fiction, the NBCC committee declared that: “ I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home is a heartbreaking and hilarious ghost story about a man who considers what it means to be human in a world infected by, as Moore puts it, ‘voluntary insanity.’
The book begins by briefly introducing the reader to Phillips in 1989, before quickly travelling back to her childhood in 1940s Brooklyn. [10] It then covers her early life and first successes in the film industry: she and Michael earned $100,000 from their debut feature, Steelyard Blues, moved to Malibu, California, and had a daughter, Kate. [9]
Her earliest novels were literary fiction; after the publication of The Suspect (1985), her first mystery novel and winner of the 1986 Edgar Award for Best Novel, she concentrated almost exclusively on the genre. One further work of literary fiction, Love in the Temperate Zone, appeared in 1988.
The book generated extensive notoriety and sales, and was also the subject of a low-budget documentary. [1] The book was the subject of several reported lawsuits. On 1 March 1996, the woman referred to as "Tiffany" sued the publisher Dove Books, and its executive, Michael Viner. [2]
Home was named one of the "100 Notable Books of 2008" by The New York Times, [4] one of the "Best Books of 2008" by The Washington Post, [5] one of the Los Angeles Times' "Favorite Books 2008", [6] one of the "Best Books of 2008" by San Francisco Chronicle, [7] as well as one of The New Yorker book critic James Wood's ten favorite books of 2008 ...
The Town was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951. In September 1966, its publisher Alfred A. Knopf reissued the trilogy for the first time as a single hardcover volume. According to the edition notice of this all-in-one version—which lists the original publication dates of the three books—The Town was first published on 24 April ...
The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the second of the "Snopes" trilogy, following The Hamlet (1940) and completed by The Mansion (1959).
The Town That Drowned is a coming-of-age novel by Canadian author Riel Nason, first published in 2011 by Goose Lane Editions. The novel has garnered numerous accolades, including the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize for Canada and Europe, and was a finalist for the CLA Young Adult Book Award and the Red Maple Award .