{"id":3501,"date":"2010-03-25T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T14:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2016-06-08T18:43:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T22:43:51","slug":"the-lost-man-booker-prize-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/03\/25\/the-lost-man-booker-prize-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Man Booker Prize Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The names familiar to me from the <a title=\"The Lost Man Booker Prize Longlist\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/01\/31\/the-lost-man-booker-prize\/\" target=\"_self\">longlist<\/a> were the ones that made it to the shortlist of six.\u00a0But I haven&#8217;t read any of these books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nina Bawden: <strong><em>The Birds on the Trees<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>J.G. Farrell: <strong><em>Troubles<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shirley Hazzard: <strong><em>The Bay of Noon<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Patrick White: <strong><em>The Vivisector<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mary Renault: <strong><em>Fire from Heaven<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Muriel Spark: <strong><em>The Driver&#8217;s Seat<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the Best of the Booker shortlist was announced I raced to read the ones I hadn&#8217;t yet read.\u00a0I&#8217;d like to do the same this year, but I have so many other things to read right now &#8212; we&#8217;ll see!<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t appear that Bawden&#8217;s <em>The Birds on the Trees<\/em> is in print here in the U.S.\u00a0The other five are, however, and, as it happens, they are still in print by some of my favorite publishers: New Directions, NYRB Classics, and Penguin Classics, Picador, and Vintage. I&#8217;m a bit wary of the Renault because I read and didn&#8217;t like in the least <em>The Last of the Wine<\/em>. To me it was like reading a bad translation.\u00a0In its defense, it was required reading in a classical Greek class (professor&#8217;s attempt to show how the subject has been approached in more contemporary times); and of course every other book, play or poem we read was better.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck if you join in the fun! If you have a favorite in this list, you can also join in the <a title=\"Public Vote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themanbookerprize.com\/news\/vote\" target=\"_blank\">public vote<\/a>.\u00a0The vote closes on April 23, and the winner will be announced on May 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist for the Lost Man Booker Prize has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/03\/25\/the-lost-man-booker-prize-shortlist\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[798],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-Man-Booker-Prize-Logo.jpg?fit=200%2C241&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-Ut","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18527,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/18527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}