{"id":10359,"date":"2013-11-05T23:47:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T03:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=10359"},"modified":"2013-11-05T23:48:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T03:48:33","slug":"2013-giller-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/11\/05\/2013-giller-prize-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Giller Prize Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10295\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/10\/22\/lynn-coady-hellgoing\/hell-going\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hell-Going.jpg?fit=348%2C530&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"348,530\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hell-Going\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hell-Going.jpg?fit=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hell-Going.jpg?fit=348%2C530&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10295\" alt=\"Hell-Going\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hell-Going-196x300.jpg?resize=196%2C300\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hell-Going.jpg?resize=98%2C150&amp;ssl=1 98w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hell-Going.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hell-Going.jpg?fit=348%2C530&amp;ssl=1 348w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>Tonight they announced that this year&#8217;s winner of the Giller Prize is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Hellgoing<\/em>, by Lynn Coady<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I reviewed it <a title=\"Mookse Review of Hellgoing\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/10\/22\/lynn-coady-hellgoing\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I said in that review, I didn&#8217;t really like this short story collection. I much preferred her novel <em>The Antagonist<\/em>, which was a finalist for the Giller Prize in 2011 (and which I reviewed <a title=\"Mookse Review of The Antagonist\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/11\/08\/lynn-coady-the-antagonist\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This year, I put <em>Hellgoing<\/em> as the fourth out of five (or fifth out of six when you include <em>The Orenda<\/em>, the book that really should have won prize this year and wasn&#8217;t even shortlisted).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight they announced that this year&#8217;s winner of the Giller Prize is: Hellgoing, by Lynn Coady I reviewed it here. As I said in that review, I didn&#8217;t really like this short story collection. I much preferred her novel The Antagonist, which was a finalist for the Giller Prize in 2011 (and which I reviewed here). 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