Wednesday, June 09, 2010

There is something ...

... in what he says: Awards only go to boring books, says Martin Amis.

Certainly there are boring books that somehow manage to win awards, but the fact remains that something like -- or are somehow persuaded that they like -- those books. On the other hand, some very good books win awards. John Banville's The Sea, for example. The fact, Martin, is that there is no necessary between awards and literary quality.

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