Monday, May 21, 2012

Sounds plausible …

… Alan Hollinghurst: 'The Booker can drive people mad' | Books | The Observer. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)


The Stranger's Child came out last year (it is published in paperback this week) to almost universal praise; the only criticism anyone seemed to be able to level at it was that it isn't The Line of Beauty. But then... controversy! The novel was left off the Booker shortlist, and thus became the focus for discontent with the prize and its supposedly lowbrow leanings; soon after, the literary agent Andrew Kidd announced that he hoped to establish a new, more serious fiction award (although, so far, nothing has yet happened on this score).

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