{"id":6368,"date":"2011-09-06T08:23:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T12:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=6368"},"modified":"2016-07-08T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T19:13:14","slug":"2011-man-booker-prize-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/09\/06\/2011-man-booker-prize-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Man Booker Prize Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Man Booker Prize shortlist was announced. Here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Julian Barnes: <strong><em>The Sense of an Ending<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Carol Birch: <strong><em>Jamrach&#8217;s Menagerie<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Patrick deWitt: <strong><em>The Sisters Brothers<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Esi Edugyan: <strong><em>Half Blood Blues<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Stephen Kelman: <strong><em>Pigeon English<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>AD Miller: <strong><em>Snowdrops<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have read <em>The Sisters Brothers<\/em> (review <a title=\"Mookse Review of The Sisters Brother\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/08\/17\/patrick-dewitt-the-sisters-brothers\/\">here<\/a>) and <em>Snowdrops<\/em> (review <a title=\"Mookse Review of Snowdrops\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/08\/02\/a-d-miller-snowdrops\/\">here<\/a>). I also started <em>Jamrach&#8217;s Menagerie<\/em> but abandoned it early on. I believe I will give it another go now that it is on the shortlist. And since the Kelman is a book I&#8217;ve avoided all year, perhaps now is the time to read it too. I anxiously await a copy of <em>The Sense of an Ending<\/em>, and believe that right now it is the front runner on the Man Booker forum (<a title=\"Man Booker Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/themanbookerprize.com\/debate\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I&#8217;ve been disenchanted with the Booker this year. Many of the longlisted books were simply not good. Still, it appears that from that longlist, the judges have come up with an interesting shortlist &#8212; at least, I know people who have enjoyed each of these books quite a bit &#8212; perhaps the fact that each is on the shortlist is\u00a0defensible. The Barry and the Holinghurst didn&#8217;t make it, which will upset many, but the Barnes did, which makes me happy (I abandoned the Holinghurst and wasn&#8217;t really looking forward to the Barry, though I&#8217;ll probably still read it, someday, maybe).\u00a0I believe the best book from the longlist I read so far was Alison Pick&#8217;s <em>Far to Go<\/em> (my review <a title=\"Mookse Review of Far to Go\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/08\/08\/alison-pick-far-to-go\/\">here<\/a>), but while I think it was great, I can understand why it didn&#8217;t make it.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced on October 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Man Booker Prize shortlist has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/09\/06\/2011-man-booker-prize-shortlist\/\"><u>Read the full 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