explorer / books · 1987
The Journal of Nicholas the American
Leigh Kennedy’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 1986 by Atlantic Monthly Press · 204 pages
Nebula · 1987
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This book is recorded on the Nebula ballot only. Each row shows the full Best Novel ballot for that award and ceremony year. Winners appear first.
Synopsis
College student Nicholas Dal is a tele-empath who involuntarily experiences the emotions of everyone around him, with overwhelming feelings capable of triggering seizures. Living in semi-drunken isolation just to stay sane, Nicholas finds his careful defenses threatened when a psychiatrist begins investigating him and his growing feelings for a classmate force him to confront his family's cursed legacy of persecution and madness.
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