I watched the Giller Prize live on TV last night. It was the first program I've watched on TV for months. The 5 short-listed nominated books all seemed compelling stories that I'll look into, after the prices drop to an affordable level.
The prize usually generates a three-fold increase in sales of the winning book.
Linden MacIntyre Wins the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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Of the winning book, the jury remarked: “The Bishop’s Man centres on a sensitive topic - the sexual abuses perpetrated by Catholic priests on the innocent children in their care. Father Duncan, the first person narrator, has been his bishop's dutiful enforcer, employed to check the excesses of priests and, crucially, to suppress the evidence. But as events veer out of control, he is forced into painful self-knowledge as family, community and friendship are torn apart under the strain of suspicion, obsession and guilt. A brave novel, conceived and written with impressive delicacy and understanding.”
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