The Prize by Irving Wallace (Epub)

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Novelist Andrew Craig has not been sober in a very long time. After losing his wife in an auto accident he believes to have been his own fault, he turned to the bottle, and to his sister-in-law, Leah, who acts as his caretaker and live-in nurse. Then, when he is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for his novel, “The Perfect State,” a historical jab at communism, he heads for Stockholm, hoping to find a reason to live, and to write. The other laureates have their own problems, a heart surgeon who believes that sharing his award with an Italian colleague robs him of his glory, a married couple awarded the prize in medicine in the middle of a serious marital crisis, and others – including Max Stratman, whose heart isn’t really up to the trip, but who needs the prize money to provide for niece, Emily.

This novel delves into the lives, loves, dreams and nightmares of these characters, and others, building a panoramic view of the Nobel Prize, life in Stockholm, and the state of world politics in the years following World War II. It is rich and compelling, driving the reader from the pits of despair to the heights of inspiration. A wonderful novel by one of America’s finest novelists. The Prize was made into a movie starring Paul Newman.

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⭐ I started this book in jail It started off great with Wiley being a promising fun character. (instead of fun she is turned into a place holder villain) Finished it out of jail and frankly the authors banal middle class college lefty corn view points began to interfer with my ability to stomach the book. Unbelievable characters like the stereotyped free sex single Swedish girl. The totally deux ex machina unbelievable insertion of the hungarian spy character as a father figure to this Swedish girl ?? to allow the plot to work. Boring details of iconic Stockholm restaurants — iconic to who? visiting College students? All the material is there it just needed to be edited. People complained of too much sex–there was that plus too much immature romance drama. I was in highschool a long time ago and would prefer not to remember relationship dramas of that era. I skipped the last 80 pages when the niece gets kidnapped. Do not recommend.

⭐ The Prize, by Irving Wallace, is an excellent book. Mr. Wallace is a master at creating fascinating characters and having them do unexpected things! This book is so absorbing that I could scarcely put it down.The tale is that of the Novel Prizes in one year and the laureates who are being honored by them. It revolves around Nobel Week, during which time all the Nobel winners for that year are brought to Sweden for a round of dinners, speeches, and other special events. It delves into each of the winners: their lives, their families, and of course, the specialty area in which they won the prize. While most of this information didn’t come from the Nobel Foundation but from reporters and other investigators in the book, it is all exquisitely woven into the fiber of the novel. In reviewing their family history, their foibles, and their eccentricities, the book exposed each person’s unique quirks, which enhanced the book to create gripping reading. It delves into each of the winners, their lives, their families, and of course, the specialty area in which they won the prize.Two other areas in particular stood out to this reader. The descriptions of the buildings, the various locations, and the scenery was inviting, enticing me to travel there (perhaps in the summer, though!). The unusual person of the Count, responsible for the entire week, also brought his own fascinations. He has an incredible grasp on the history of the Nobel Prize which he shared exactly when needed. His guidance during Nobel Week helped tie all the laureates together through their many activities and adventures!Don’t miss this captivating work.

⭐ Irving Wallace is a great writer of fiction. His books mingle excitement with an amazing amount of research. I recommend this and all his other books to readers of serious fiction. Great work.

⭐ Thank you Amazon for helping a resurgence of the novels of Irving Wallace, through Kindle and the books. He was so good and it really was heartbreaking because it seemed for so long he was being forgotten. I’ve re-read THE SEVEN MINUTES, THE PLOT, THE SEVENTH SECRET, THE PIGEON PROJECT and THE PRIZE and it has been an absolute joy.These reviews explain and criticize and praise the books more than I am able. But, I can say, they are just so much fun to read. Wallace loved words and he had such a generosity of heart and mind, as shown by how he believed would be the result for the world with THE WORD. His books for the most part are long and so compelling. He was a writer who wrote big bestsellers and they were for real. I don’t believe money deals were part of it then or chicanery.He wrote such gigantic themes so huge, it is amazing. And simply good writing. He could conjure imagination and make them fact. THE PRIZE just towers by the words of a master. THE SEVEN MINUTES is still, I think, an excellent book on censorship and freedom of speech. The dialogue, the characters, are so intelligent. Sometimes, I will read bestsellers that try to fit in his domain, and I really felt stupid reading them. It seems that he is very little dated, and that surprises me, but it should not. He wrote about sex, from Chapman to Freeburg, turning one book upside down for another. He seemed just immensely happy writing and I hope so. And fine non-fiction like THE SUNDAY GENTLEMAN, his early articles. Always entertaining and he taught with amazement. He wrote about politics and an underground world where Hitler lived for decades afterwards we thought he had died, and Eva Braun living on. He did write predictive fiction. I think THE R DOCUMENT being published again because of the patriot act and the parallel started it.. He taught us so much about Alfred Nobel, the prize, medicine, science, history of books, trials, the newspaper business, how to make false papyrus, and he had the audacity to write the book of James himself, facts and dates and incidents, always putting human level and a man of immense knowledge and literate. He wrote books concerning world shattering. He dreamed gigantic.I am just saying that is for me that’s all and thank you for the wonderful books returning. Once, on the Tonight Show, Irving Wallace, with that trademark pipe, and a great smile and laugh, talked to Johnny about a party that Wallace had had for writers. He said, he was talking with Rod Serling, and Rod pointed at William Goldman and said “that is a real writer.”What a fantastic thing, such a huge compliment from one of the the best writers there has ever been, to another great writer, about another fantastic writer. And those were just three of the writers there.Holy cow!

⭐ I’ve read this several times. I really enjoy rediscovering over time. Enjoyable story about the Nobel Prize and lots of drama going on in background which is an awesome story. I enjoy Irving Wallace novels.

⭐ A fast moving novel about humanity speckled with sex romance and intrigue.A lot of research into past Nobel laureates that makes parts of the book a bit tedious. However it is a page turner for the greater partBlaise deSouza

⭐ THE PRIZE is a lot of fun, and a treasure-trove of late fifties and early sixties sexual morality. It is copyright 1962, but there’s nothing of “the sixties” about it, none of the so-called new morality that distinguished that decade. Those sixties actually started a little later. When Wallace was writing, the Swedes were still seen as way ahead of the Americans in sexual freedom. The American hero of THE PRIZE sleeps early and often with a lovely Swedish woman who, unmarried, already has had a married man’s child — but instead of marrying her, the hero wants to marry an American virgin, who has a mild frigidity problem he just might be able to cure.Ah, the good old days.Meanwhile the Kindle version is readable, but has serious problems. Though here and there there is a correctly accented word like Mälarstrand, most of the time the presence of these accents sends the Kindle OCR into a tizzy, and there are simpler scanning errors too. We get ME for RUE, URN for the German UM, MA for the Swedish city MALMÖ, SWINBUME for SWINBURNE, and lots of much worse things, like PS.111 for the Swedish name PÅHL. Some of these super-errors will throw you completely off the track and lead to lifelong frustration unless, like me, you have an old paperback of the novel you can check back with.Considering how many copies of THE PRIZE must be around in used bookstores, it would be good advice to get one of those instead, and dream about how wonderful proofreading used to be, in the days when even a cheap eight hundred-page paperback had almost no typographical errors.

⭐ A classic in its own right. Fabulous setting, wonderfully written. Even 53 years later it’s such a good read. Skilful handling of sub-plots. Tends to weaken the characterisation of some (Denise Marceau, Dr Garret) with a frivolous situations/ actions to ‘build drama’, hence in pets the book loses gravity. Also, too much of sex, becomes a distraction from the main storyline.Overall a super read. The first half of the book is unputdownable.

⭐ A wonderful read. Somewhat improbable plot, but characters are well presented. And lots of information about the selection process for the Nobel Prize, as well as providing details on Swedish culture.

⭐ This may be the very best of Irving Wallace’s wonderful novels! The story is just a timely one, whether you read it when it first came out or just now. He develops the characters so beautifully, I could picture every single one of them. And as the story develops, there is surprise after surprise. Just a fabulous book and one I wholeheartedly recommend.

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