Man Booker Prize Winners & Finalists (1974)

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1974 Winners (two winners this year)
	Title/Author	The TurboBookSnob's Comments
	The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer Publisher: Cape	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. Nadine Gordimer's fascinating portrait of a man both reckless and calculating, a “conservationist” left only with the possibility of self-preservation, is also a subtle and detailed study of the forces and relationships that seethe in South Africa today.

	Holiday by Stanley Middleton Publisher: Hutchinson	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Holiday is the story of a man who leaves his wife and spends a week in a seaside boarding-house looking back over all that went wrong with his marriage.
1974 Shortlist
	Ending Up by Kingsley Amis Publisher: Cape	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: At Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage a clutch of oldsters, brought together more by ill fortune than blood or love, struggles with problems that range from penury to prostate. That's the good news. The rest is Amis as usual, providing fun for himself and his readers at the expense of his characters.

	The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge Publisher: Duckworth	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Freda and Brenda go on an outing with their fellow-workers at a wine-bottling factory. Unexpected horror is the result. This novel was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1974 and won the Guardian Fiction Award.

	In Their Wisdom by C.P. Snow Publisher: Macmillan	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Old Massie is dead. Irascible and eccentric to the end, he has left his considerable fortune to the ne'er-do-well son of his rectory-companion. The will is contested by Massie's daughter, and a dramatic struggle ensues, the repercussions of which are felt even in the House of Lords. Remarkable for both its wealth of sharply drawn characters and its insights into heritage and inheritance in contemporary England , In Their Wisdom rivals Dickens's Bleak House in its compelling creation of an epic legal struggle
1974 Longlist
Longlist information for 1974 is not available; the Booker Prize did not release longlists until 2001.
1974 Judges
Ion Trewin (Chair), A.S. Byatt and Elizabeth Jane Howard