作者bucklee (alessio)
看板Fiction
标题Anne Enright takes the Booker
时间Wed Oct 17 12:40:22 2007
Anne Enright takes the Booker
http://books.guardian.co.uk/manbooker2007/story/0,,2192570,00.html
Outsider beats favourites to scoop prize for tale of dysfunctional family
life set in Ireland
Charlotte Higgins, arts correspondent
Tuesday October 16, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Against all the odds, and seeing off competition from favourites Ian McEwan
and Lloyd Jones, rank outsider Anne Enright was tonight awarded the Man
Booker prize for her "powerful, uncomfortable and even at times angry book"
The Gathering.
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Disappointed though he will doubtless be, Ian McEwan can at least take
comfort from his incredibly healthy sales. On Chesil Beach is far outselling
the other books on the shortlist combined (not to mention the surge of sales
for Atonement in the wake of Joe Wright's film). Sales figures of the other
books, by contrast, exemplify the tough climate for literary fiction in the
marketplace - and Enright's book has so far shifted just 3,253 copies. The
latest figures from Nielsen BookScan show that the McEwan has sold a total of
120,362; Nicola Barker's Darkmans, 11,097; Mister Pip, 5,170; Mohsin Hamid's
The Reluctant Fundamentalist 4,425, and Indra Sinha's Animal's People 2,589.
This year's judges, chaired by Davies, are poet Wendy Cope, author and
journalist Giles Foden, biographer and critic Ruth Scurr, and actor Imogen
Stubbs. Last year's Man Booker prize-winner was Kiran Desai's The Inheritance
of Loss.
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