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Orange Prize 2011
The longlist for the Orange prize was announced today:
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03-16-2011, 11:57 PM | #2 |
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Not a lot of familiar names on there. Well, not familiar to me, anyway.
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I've only read Visit from Goon Squad (very good) and Room (reading now; good but emotionally harrowing.). I've read good things about Tiger's Wife. Most of the rest I've never heard of.
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Room was a great concept, but the writer just wasn't up to the challenge.
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For those not familiar with the award (....me)
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Mmm, it was one of those books that really needed my "page 70 promise", (if I start a book I promise to give it until at least page 70), the narratorial voice seemed too contrived to me. In the end I'm glad I stuck with it...perhaps not the best novel I shall read this year but worth a few hours of anybody's time I thought,
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You know, if we had an award for the best fiction by a man, this thread would be full of comments saying it's completely sexist and unjust
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And would those making such comments be right, and if they were right would it follow that the Orange Prize is sexist and unjust?
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I'll give you my very bland and middle-of-the-road response: It's sexist in that it is open only to one sex. But does that make it unjust? I don't think so. But I wouldn't complain if I saw a male-centered list. Then again, males tend to dominate the field... and isn't that whole point of the list? |
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