Re: Atwood - joint winner of Booker Prize Archived Message
Posted by Raskolnikov on October 15, 2019, 9:42 am, in reply to "Atwood - joint winner of Booker Prize"
I thought this decision was awful although I thought this year's shortlist was poor as a whole. "The Testaments" was not worthy of being longlisted in my opinion. I enjoyed it but it wasn't a patch on "The Handmaid's Tale" and read like she had gone through all the forums and taken note of what fans of the television series wanted to see and tied them all into the novel. I think they are just trying to make up for not giving her the award previously. The last couple of years of Booker winners seemed to improve in quality but this year looks like identity politics/optics has trumped everything including literary merit.
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