![]() ![]() This wasn’t my experience of the novel, which began positively and ended less so. In their rapid response to the announcement, the Guardian’s Claire Armistead and Sarah Crown characterised The Slap as a marmite book: you either love it or hate it. It seems, after all, to have caught the attention of people who don’t usually read literary fiction: it has been the second best selling novel in this country over the last two months, second only, naturally, to Katie Price’s Paradise. David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet also fell at the final Booker hurdle to much surprise, but in a sense The Slap‘s omission is the bigger shock. One thing that is fresh in my memory, though, is this week’s announcement of the 2010 shortlist and Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap followed Tóibín’s novel in failing to make the grade. ![]() I should pause before opening another post with an observation about the Booker – quite how I managed to forget last year’s shortlist so totally as to think Brooklyn got on to it, I don’t know. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |