Ian McEwan won the 'People's Booker' voted by viewers. 'Atonement'
has sold 100,000 copies here in 4 weeks which is quite astonishing.
It was agreed that both the Peter Carey and the Ian McEwan were
better than their previous books which won the Booker. REgarding
the Booker it is probably best to keep the Americans out cos
they would dominate it if they came in. American fiction is
reputed to be much more ambitious than Commonwealth.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Candice Ward wrote:
> YAY! (Good book on a wild and wonderful character.) I went to a Ned Kelly
> bar near an OZ port town called Fairy (can that be right?) and thought it a
> great improvement over the Dan O'Connell pub of yore.
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> And as if Ian McEwan needed another prize anyway, although I hear that
> _Atonement_ is his best yet. (True? False? Anybody?)
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> Candice
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> > to Peter Carey for his Ned Kelly. He owes Ian McEwan a lunch now.
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> > Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> > Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
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