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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Books Booker Long List Announced

Posted by Alison Hallett on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:48 PM

The long list for the Man Booker Awards was announced yesterday. Many of the books haven't gotten stateside release yet, but one that has is Me Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood, which purports to be the memoir of the chimpanzee from Tarzan. It'd be funny if a monkey beat Coetzee. (Ape. Whatever.) Full list of nominees after the jump.

Via Jacket Copy:

A.S. Byat, "The Children's Book" — out in the U.S. in October
J.M. Coetzee, "Summertime" — out in the U.S. in October
Adam Foulds, "The Quickening Maze" — American release not scheduled
Sarah Hall, "How to Paint a Dead Man" — out in the U.S. in September
Samantha Harvey, "The Wilderness" — out now
James Lever, "Me Cheeta"
Hilary Mantel, "Wolf Hall" — out in the U.S. in October
Simon Mawer, "The Glass Room" — American release not scheduled
Ed O'Loughlin, "Not Untrue and Not Unkind" — out in the U.S. in April 2010
James Scudamore, "Heliopolis" — out now
Colm Toibin, "Brooklyn"
William Trevor, "Love and Summer" — out in the U.S. in September
Sarah Waters, "The Little Stranger" — out now

 

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Oh, I say chappies and chappettes, we awarded the folks at the Man Booker Prize one of our distinquished Dubious Achievement Awards for 2008, don't you know.

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P.S. Not funny. The column, that is. Our stuff as always is quite droll for the most part.
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That should be Byatt
Posted by sgp on July 29, 2009 at 6:18 PM · Report

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