Fugitive Pieces
Canadian novelist, born 1958. Won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 1997.
Fugitive Pieces is a 1996 novel by Anne Michaels. It won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 1997.
On 2 of the 19 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Anne Michaels
- First published
- 1996
- Length
- 320 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Women's Prize for Fiction winner, 1997
- Genre
- Literary fiction, War and conflict, Psychological
Is Fugitive Pieces worth reading?
2 of the 19 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Women's Prize for Fiction and 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts, 2019) | Listed | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 1997) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of Fugitive Pieces
The edition we link to is the Bloomsbury Publishing PLC paperback (2009), 320 pages.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (paperback, 2009)
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780747599258
How critics, prizes and readers rate Fugitive Pieces
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 10% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work