The prize.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 768
Description: An American author, in Stocklholm to collect a Nobel prize, runs into danger when he discovers that the prize-winning physicist has been replaced by an imposter.
Notes: 'A novel of such outstanding excellence that it deserves high precedence. A long enthralling story. This book is quite the most brilliant example of this genre that I have ever read; indeed, I cannot recall any novel published since the war of which I can speak with such undiluted enthusiasm.' Illustrated London News.
'It is extraordinarily good of its kind. Mr Wallace has done his homework about the Nobel Prize very well, and there is much fascinating detail about the lobbying for the nominations, how candidates are pushed, how real winners in the past have reacted.' - David Holloway, Daily Telegraph.
'Mr Wallace has researched with copious diligence into every aspect of Nobel lore. It is constantly readable and crammed with incident. - Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times.
'If half of Mr Wallace's mordant ironies and strictures are true then he assuredly will not win The Prize for The Prize - whatever its literary merit, which is considerable. Birmingham Mail.
'A most notable book indeed, showing enormous research and scholarship. This is a far-ranging and fascinating book.' Press and Journal.