Man Booker Prize Winners & Finalists (1970)

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1970 Winner
	Title/Author	The TurboBookSnob's Comments
	The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswood	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Norman was an infant prodigy, a brilliant lawyer, Member of Parliament, the shining hope of his Rabbi father. Now he is lost, adrift in a world love can't reach—even the love of a father too tender, a sister too kind—trapped in the haunting past that has marked them all. But the past that hurts can also heal, and the love that falters can grow strong again. The Elected Member is a luminous, deeply moving tale by one of Britain 's most acclaimed novelists.
1970 Shortlist
	John Brown's Body by A.L. Barker Publisher: Hogarth Press	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Child-wife Marise dislikes sex and is terrified of open spaces. When her husband casually mentions that he recognizes "Ralph" from the flat above as John Brown, acquitted for lack of evidence of a double murder, Marise encourages Ralph's attentions, in need of the combination of passion and fear.

	Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen Publisher: Cape	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Monolithic, rich, unloved, and with a genius for unreality, Eva Trout has a “capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her” that is endless. Eva Trout was Elizabeth Bowen's last completed novel. And here her elegant style, her gift for social comedy, and her intense sensibility combine to create one of her most formidable—and moving—heroines.

	Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch Publisher: Chatto & Windus	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Bruno is nearly ninety. Obsessed with his past and a passion for spiders, he is the centre of a complex web of relationships involving his estranged son Miles; Danby, his hapless son-in-law; Danby's mistress, Adelaide ; and her twin cousins, the vengeful Will and the mischievous, sinister Nigel.

	Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor Publisher: Bodley Head	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: What was the tragedy that turned O'Neill's hotel from a plush establishment into a dingy house of disrepute? Ivy Eckdorf is determined to find out. A professional photographer, she has come to Dublin convinced that a tragic and beautiful tale lies behind the facade of this crumbling hotel.

	The Conjunction by T.W. Wheeler Publisher: Angus & Robertson	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Not available at this time.
1970 Longlist
Longlist information for 1970 is not available; the Booker Prize did not release longlists until 2001.
1970 Judges
David Holloway (Chair), Dame Rebecca West, Lady Antonia Fraser, Ross Higgins, and Richard Hogart