"Despite his winning one of the earliest Booker prizes for his novel Holiday in 1974, Middleton remains perhaps one of the most under-rated of British novelists. His work is resolutely unfashionable, dealing with middle-class, middle-English, largely uneventful lives. And yet his prose is capitivating, and his plotting turns the minutiae of everyday living into gripping narratives."
See also:
ReplyDeleteThe Reader magazine's Stanley Middleton, novelist, dies
and The Guardian's Booker winner Stanley Middleton dies aged 89.
And crime novelist Michael Walters, who studied with Mr Middleton, says in A farewell to Stanley Middleton that
ReplyDelete"Despite his winning one of the earliest Booker prizes for his novel Holiday in 1974, Middleton remains perhaps one of the most under-rated of British novelists. His work is resolutely unfashionable, dealing with middle-class, middle-English, largely uneventful lives. And yet his prose is capitivating, and his plotting turns the minutiae of everyday living into gripping narratives."
Tributes paid to Nottingham author.
ReplyDeleteThe Guardian's obituary was published today.
ReplyDeleteThe Telegraph's obituary was published today (July 30).
ReplyDeleteRecordings of BBC Nottingham's interviews with Stanley Middleton are here.
ReplyDeleteThe Liverpool Daily Post's obituary was published today (July 31).
A recording of David Belbin's talking about Stanley Middleton from a BBC Nottingham interview can be found here.
ReplyDeleteToday (August 6; dated August 7 in the UK) The Indepedent published their obituary: Stanley Middleton: Booker Prize-winning novelist whose works dissected the mores of Middle England.
ReplyDeleteJeni Diski writes that Stanley Middleton ". . . wrote a calm, whispering prose, full of unspoken suggestion between ordinary acts of daily living."
ReplyDeleteThe Times' obituary is online.
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