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2004. Another Booker Prize Winner I liked but couldn't love. Another year when the winner was less impressive than those it beat. And now it is 2011 and Alan Hollinghurst's new book The Stranger's Child has been long listed for this year's prize and already he's the bookmakers' pick to win.
He probably will, and maybe this time he'll deserve it.
That's not fair of me, though. It's not like The Line of Beauty was a bad book. I enjoyed it well enough. The characters were engaging (I especially liked ...more
He probably will, and maybe this time he'll deserve it.
That's not fair of me, though. It's not like The Line of Beauty was a bad book. I enjoyed it well enough. The characters were engaging (I especially liked ...more
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An award-winning novel, and deservedly so. The language is amazing, and so are the observations about sex, class, and excess in Thatcher's England. Nick Guest, the narrator and center (an aesthetic if amoral one) of the book is drawn into the world of the 1%. With some sad if not wholly unpredictable consequences. The satire of the book is sometimes savage, but the writing sometimes, but only sometimes, softens the cruelty.
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