{"id":4415,"date":"2010-09-07T08:20:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2016-06-19T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T05:01:01","slug":"the-man-booker-prize-shortlist-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/09\/07\/the-man-booker-prize-shortlist-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize was announced.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter Carey: <em><a title=\"Mookse Review of Parrot and Olivier in America\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/07\/25\/peter-carey-parrot-and-olivier-in-america\/\" target=\"_self\">Parrot and Olivier in America<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Emma Donoghue: <em>Room<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Damon Galgut: <em><a title=\"Mookse Review of In a Strange Room\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/08\/26\/damon-galgut-in-a-strange-room\/\" target=\"_self\">In a Strange Room<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Howard Jacobson: <em>The Finkler Question<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Andrea Levy: <em>The Long Song<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tom McCarthy: <em><a title=\"Mookse Review of C\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/08\/22\/tom-mccarthy-c\/\" target=\"_self\">C<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see Galgut and McCarthy on the list, as those were two excellent books. I&#8217;m not surprised to see Carey on the list, though I hope it does not win. Like many others, I&#8217;m surprised not to see David Mitchell&#8217;s <em><a title=\"Mookse Review of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/06\/28\/david-mitchell-the-thousand-autumns-of-jacob-de-zoet\/\" target=\"_self\">The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet<\/a><\/em> there. My surprise, though, is based on the fact that so many people loved it, and not because I think it is deserving. Personally, I&#8217;m happy to see it off the list, as I hope Mitchell one day wins for a stronger work. Of the four longlist titles I read, it was my least favorite &#8212; a real disappointment, actually. However, from word of mouth, I suspect I will like <em>Room <\/em>even less. <em>The Finkler Question<\/em> and <em>The Long Song<\/em> are two I&#8217;ve been curious about, so I hope to read them.<\/p>\n<p>As for availability in the United States, you can get Carey, McCarthy, and Levy in hardback (though I haven&#8217;t seen the Levy\u00a0in stores for a while; perhaps that will change now &#8212; I hope.). You can\u00a0purchase Galgut and now Jacobson from the Kindle store.\u00a0Donoghue will be published on September 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Man Booker Prize shortlist has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/09\/07\/the-man-booker-prize-shortlist-announced\/\"><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-4415","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-19d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415","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=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18773,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions\/18773"}],"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=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}