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The longlist for the Booker Prize includes Canadian, and part-time Ninja, Lisa Moore’s fantastic novel February.
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- Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Faber and Faber)
- Room by Emma Donoghue (Pan MacMillan – Picador)
- The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (Penguin – Fig Tree)
- In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Books)
- The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury)
- The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Headline Publishing Group – Headline Review)
- C by Tom McCarthy (Random House – Jonathan Cape)
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (Hodder & Stoughton – Sceptre)
- February by Lisa Moore (Random House – Chatto & Windus)
- Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Penguin – Hamish Hamilton)
- Trespass by Rose Tremain (Random House – Chatto & Windus)
- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Grove Atlantic – Tuskar Rock)
- The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner (Random House – Jonathan Cape)
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July 27th, 2010 at 11:43 am
wasn’t there an excerpt of Lisa Moore’s book in the Walrus recently? or maybe not so recently, i get recycled copied from a friend.
July 28th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Not an excerpt but a short short story called ‘Mask’. One of several in the summer reading issue, for which the call was ‘the most Canadian story [they] could think of’. (This, in the wake of ‘Glendinning’…)