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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1992 was the year that Bill Clinton was elected president; riots broke out in Los Angeles following the verdict in the Rodney King case; famine was widespread in Somalia; and Terry McMillan celebrated the power of girlfriends in her bestselling WAITING TO EXHALE.


Significant Book of 1992:
Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient

BOOK Ondaatje, an accomplished poet and novelist, explores the mysteries of life and war through the meeting of four people in an Italian villa at the end of World War II: a Canadian nurse, a mysterious, badly burned patient; a thief; and a bomb disposal expert. "A rare and spellbinding web of dreams." --Time

  Significant Music of 1992:
 k.d. lang's Ingenue

BOOK Country crooner k.d. lang went pop with INGENUE, as her single "Constant Craving" climbed the charts. Meanwhile, the ever-changing Neil Young looked into his past and delivered a masterpiece with HARVEST MOON.




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