Burgess -- that fraud? Ho-ho. Archived Message
Posted by scrabb on August 14, 2022, 2:51 pm, in reply to "Gore Vidal, the last literate American"
Watched with glee a doc the other night on the history of the Booker Prize in which Burgess, after being shortlisted and losing out, described it as parochial, insular, small-minded prize (words to that effect) well suited to a parochial, insular, small-minded country. Oooooh, missus, he was cross.
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