Reading with Style discussion

Read a book first published in xx81-xx90 (any century will be accepted.)

Post questions about task 10.2 in this thread.

These books are from our Bookshelf, so would get combo points for 10.7
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark (1988)
Amongst Women by John McGahern (1990)
Chiefs by Stuart Woods (1981)
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard (1984)
Fences by August Wilson (1986)
Germinal by Émile Zola (1885)
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard (1990)
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (1988)
Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life by Alice Childress (1986)
Night Soldiers by Alan Furst (1988)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (1985)
Restoration by Rose Tremain (1989)
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr (1984)
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski (1986)
The Bone People by Keri Hulme (1984)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
The Lover by Marguerite Duras (1984)
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster (1990)
The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes (1985)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (1984)
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay (1990)
War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich (1983)
Waterland by Graham Swift (1983)
White Noise by Don DeLillo (1984)
World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow (1985)

Just before you double check before committing!

I picked out Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for this one as Goodreads has 1390 as the original publication date. I can't find anything to back this up. It looks like late 14th Century is the time range. May I use it here?

Karen Michele wrote: "I picked out Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for this one as Goodreads has 1390 as the original publication date. I can't find anything to back this up. It looks like late 14th Century ..."

I can't even see who added that in the work edits! But I can see no reason to change it. Yes, go ahead!

Yay —— thanks!

I just want to check this. I was going to read Stones for Ibarra for this task. Goodreads has it was published in 1984 and all the awards it won were in the 80’s. But inside my copy it says “copyright 1978, 1981, 1983, 1984 by Harriet Doerr. First published in 1984 by The Viking Press” it’s still acceptable, right? I’m guessing she wrote it in 1978 but was published in 1984.

Rebekah wrote: "I just want to check this. I was going to read Stones for Ibarra for this task. Goodreads has it was published in 1984 and all the awards it won were in the 80’s. But inside my copy it..."

Yes, you're good with that for 1984. I remember when I read it, checking the original pub date for that very reason. I can't recall now, for sure, but I think there might have been a portion of it published before the entire novel was published.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "I just want to check this. I was going to read Stones for Ibarra for this task. Goodreads has it was published in 1984 and all the awards it won were in the 80’s. But i..."

Thanks!