Mating (novel)

Mating
First edition
Author	Norman Rush
Cover artist	^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	1991
Media type	Print
ISBN	978-0-394-54472-4

Mating is a novel by American author Norman Rush. It is a first-person narrative by an unnamed American anthropology graduate student in Botswana around 1980. It focuses on her relationship with Nelson Denoon, a controversial American anthropologist who has founded an experimental matriarchal village in the Kalahari desert.

Mating won the 1991 National Book Award for Fiction.^[1]

Notes

↑ The cover art for Mating, like that for Rush's earlier short story collection Whites, incorporates a detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights, a triptych by Hieronymous Bosch.

References

↑ "National Book Awards – 1991". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
(With essays by Lee Taylor Gaffigan and Jim Shepard from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

Awards
Preceded by Middle Passage Charles Johnson	National Book Award for Fiction 1991	Succeeded by All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy

National Book Award for Fiction (1975–1999)

Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone (1975) The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (1975) J R by William Gaddis (1976) The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner (1977) Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle (1978) Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (1979) Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1980) The World According to Garp by John Irving (1980) Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris (1981) The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1981) Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982) So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983) The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (1983) Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist (1984) White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985) World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow (1986) Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann (1987) Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (1988) Spartina by John Casey (1989) Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (1990) Mating by Norman Rush (1991) All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1993) A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (1994) Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (1995) Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett (1996) Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997) Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (1998) Waiting by Ha Jin (1999)

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