Word: dentelli
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...teau Nenin 1967) emerged from a private dining room on the third floor, stepped before the microphones and pronounced the verdict. The 1974 Prix Goncourt, the most illustrious of the 2,000 awards that France annually bestows on its writers, went to Pascal Laine, 32, for his novel La Dentellière (The Lacemaker...
...shoppers. The 50-franc ($10.63) prize money will scarcely allow Novelist Laine to do more than make a polite purchase of the runner-up's oeuvre. Nonetheless, the honor should secure his novel sales of up to half-a-million copies. Even if public taste should deem La Dentellière a "bad" Goncourt, the odds are that at least 200,000 Frenchmen will be reading what the author calls a "novel of noncommunication" and what one reviewer more fully described as the account of an unhappy love affair between a broken-down aristocratic student and a working-class...
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