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Archive for September, 2007

Roddy Doyle: The Deportees and Other Stories

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Posted in prejudice, racism, Jonathan Cape, short stories, Doyle, Roddy, nationality, Ireland, immigration, identity

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The Deportees and Other Stories, began life, as Roddy Doyle notes in the foreword, as a series of fragmented short stories written for Metro Eireann, Ireland's multicultural newspaper. Restricted to ... Read more..

Tan Twan Eng: The Gift Of Rain

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Posted in Myrmidon Books, booker 2007, Malaysia, Eng, Tan Twan, historical, first person narrator, war

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Given that I had read ten of the thirteen Booker longlistees over a few weeks I didn't expect Tan Twan Eng's debut, The Gift Of Rain to take too long ... Read more..

Warwick Collins: Gents

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Posted in racism, The Friday Project, sin, prejudice, religion, Collins, Warwick, England

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Since the early nineties, it seems Warwick Collins' writing career has gone largely unnoticed: most of his novels are out of print and Google returns scant information on him. Last ... Read more..

Timothy O’Grady, Steve Pyke: I Could Read The Sky

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Posted in Pyke, Steve, exile, Harvill Secker, O'Grady, Timothy, first person narrator, America, award winner, England

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The joy of browsing book shops tends to lead to serendipitous finds and recently I happened across I Could Read The Sky by Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke. Now, I ... Read more..

Paul Auster: Travels In The Scriptorium

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Posted in faber & faber, locked room, metafiction, Auster, Paul, America

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My knowledge of Paul Auster and his work is due to the fact that his reputation precedes him. Despite his serious tone, his works are playful and metaphysical; they have ... Read more..

Michael Redhill: Consolation

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Posted in archaeology, Heinemann, booker 2007, absence, time, historical, Redhill, Michael, Canada, love

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Canada's Michael Redhill was reportedly surprised to find his second novel had been longlisted for the Booker this year. If the content was given over to errors such as the ... Read more..

Catherine O’Flynn: What Was Lost

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Posted in Tindal Street Press, booker 2007, missing children, consumerism, O'Flynn, Catherine, England

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Having already been longlisted for one award this year, Catherine O'Flynn's debut, What Was Lost, has now found its way onto that of the Man Booker, something that will no ... Read more..

Nikita Lalwani: Gifted

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Posted in education, immigration, Penguin, booker 2007, child prodigy, parenting, marriage, Lalwani, Nikita, Wales, India

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After the announcement of the Booker longlist, Gifted by Nikita Lalwani was the first of the thirteen that I picked up in my eagerness to find out what the chosen ... Read more..

Anne Enright: The Gathering

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Posted in sexual abuse, family saga, Jonathan Cape, booker 2007, suicide, alcoholism, female perspective, Enright, Anne, Ireland, first person narrator

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Although it's a stereotype, sometimes it seems all an Irish writer has to do is take a populous family, spice it up with alcoholism, suicide, some sexual abuse, and then ... Read more..