Hindustan Times
Four years after A Long Way Down, his droll, affecting novel about four would-be suicides, Nick Hornby is back. In Juliet, Naked, his new novel, Hornby returns to the territory his long-time fans will instantly recognize: obsession, fandom and popular music, the tropes that made his first two books, Fever Pitch and High Fidelity into bestsellers and him into a literary celebrity. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, September 28, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged A Long Way Down, High Fidelity, hindustan times, Juliet, Naked, news, Nick Hornby, Tucker Crowe
So here we are with the most hotly debated annual shortlist in the English-speaking books world – the final six books vying for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
What has it boiled down to?
Summerland by JM Coetzee
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt Read more
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Coetzee, Colm Toibin, English-speaking books, Hilary Mantel, JM coetzee, Man Booker Prize 2009, Simon Mawer
What does the Man Booker Prize mean for established, perhaps even great writers, who have not become huge mainstream successes? Alan Hollinghurst, who famously takes many years to write a book, said it buys time to write. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, September 7, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Books, Brooklyn, Colm Toibin and William Trevor, Irish literature, Love and Summer, Man Booker Prize, novels
