A chilling nonfiction thriller about nuclear war is up for the UK's Baillie Gifford book prize
LONDON (AP) — A chilling, thriller-like account of how a nuclear war might unfold and two award-winning novelists are among finalists announced Thursday for Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize.American writer Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War: A Scenario” is one of six books shortlisted for the 50,000 pound ($66,000) Baillie Gifford Prize. The book, which the judging panel called “deeply researched and terrifying,” offers a minute-by-minute account of what might happen if a rogue state launched nuclear missiles at the Pentagon.Australia’s Richard Flanagan, best known as a novelist, is a finalist for his memoir “Question 7.” Flanagan won the Booker Prize for fiction in 2014 for his novel “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.”U.S. writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his novel “The Sympathizer,” made the list with the autobiographical “A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial.”The other Baillie Gifford Prize contenders are British biographer Sue Prideaux’s “Wild Thing:…
11 Oct 00:54 · iNFOnews.ca