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AWARDED. ALAN HOLLINGHURST, 50, British author; the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, the first novel with an overtly gay theme to win the literary award; in London. Of Hollinghurst's evocative tale of a young hedonist in Thatcherite London, Man Booker panel chairman Chris Smith said, "The fact it can be considered as a perfectly valid part of contemporary fiction without regarding [gay relationships] as unique shows how much times have changed...
...dangerous precedent to withdraw Hamm's medal, won at the Summer Olympics in Athens, despite a scoring error that cost bronze medalist Yang a crucial one-tenth of a point, which would have been enough to earn him the gold. AWARDED. to ALAN HOLLINGHURST, 50, British author; the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, the first novel with an overtly gay theme to win the literary award; in London. Of Hollinghurst's evocative tale of a young hedonist in Thatcherite London, Man Booker panel chairman Chris Smith said, "The fact it can be considered as a perfectly valid...
...books and TV documentaries on African wildlife (he spent a few years in Kenya). There's also his 1985 international best seller Hiroshima Joe, the tale of a captured British soldier who survives the first atomic bombing. And Booth's Industry of Souls was short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize in 1998 (after being rejected by major publishers and picked up by a small imprint for a pitiful $1,800 advance...
...Kenya). There's also a small chance you saw a copy of his 1985 adult novel Hiroshima Joe, the tale of a captured British soldier who survives the first atomic bombing, which was an international best seller. And Booth's Industry of Souls was short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize in 1998. But even that estimable Holocaust novel was rejected by major publishers before a small imprint picked it up for a pitiful $1,500 advance...
...morning Booker, far more cordial when he is not expecting eight teenagers about to destroy his newly-renovated dorm, offers me a cup of coffee and asks to see the write-up in Let’s Go. He is immensely pleased that the book mentions the Exodus festival, which occurs, it seems, whenever he feels like losing money on it. (“Not Woodstock,” he says, “Goodstock. Heh heh heh heh.”) Each January for the past few years, 5,000 people have descended on the tiny lake where...