The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990 [Hardcover]

Ishmael Reed (Editor), Shawn Wong (Editor), Kate Trueblood (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1992

Since 1976 the Before Columbus Foundation has been devoted to the task of redefining our notion of "mainstream" American literature to reflect this country's multicultural, multi-ethnic richness and diversity. Since 1980 it has sponsored the American Book Awards. This anthology includes 30 selections from a decade of award-winning fiction.

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For more than a decade, the Before Columbus Foundation has been giving annual book awards using a single criterion: no matter who wrote the book, it qualified as long as the judges considered it "an outstanding contribution to literature." The result has been an eclectic yet consistently meritorious selection, as this anthology of selections from prizewinners suggests. What a way to observe the Columbus quincentenary--not with one more cloned commemoration of "minority" literature or rear-guard defense of the European-American tradition, but with a collection whose authors (Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, Jessica Hagedorn, Salvatore La Puma, Leslie Silko, Milton Murayama, and more than 20 others) represent the true American mosaic. Included is a full list of American Book Award winners and their publications that will encourage readers to explore even further. See also The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990 , reviewed in this issue, p. 132.--Ed.
- David Kirby, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 676 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (January 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393030555
• ISBN-13: 978-0393030556
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,083,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I, along with many others, was selling this in the Az Marketplace. It's not listed now, because I'm reading it again. There's a lot of nice reading in there. It's going for one cent, and, it's worth every penny. Just kidding. It's a really good book, a must-read.