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The Man Booker Prize 2020 Winner: Shuggie Bain

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I learned about Douglas Stuart last September when I read a short fiction in The New Yorker.

a good read called The Englishman.   

Yesterday Douglas Stuart won The Man Booker Prize 2020 for his first novel, Shuggie Bain.

The Brits and much of the world have come a long way.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54976523

 

 

 

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You or someone else linked to that short story on the MC I think.  I read it and liked it.  Normally when a gay guy wins the Man Booker I rush to read his novel, his style doesn't grab me so it will be awhile, and anyway currently, I'm loving The Deviant's War.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/books/review/deviants-war-eric-cervini.html

 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Pete1111 said:

Was a unanimous winner, though I'm curious why that would be known. 

I read Alan Hollinghurst's The Thin Line of Beauty which won.  Were there other gay winners? 

 

 

 

Hollinghurst is a genius.

Another of course is Edmund White. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/books/edmund-white-a-saint-from-texas.amp.html%3f0p19G=0232

And, probably my favorite, Andrew Holleran. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Holleran

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancer_from_the_Dance

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12 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

I have not read any of Holleran, but have read Edmund White.   One of his includes an account of the Stonewall riots.  Interesting!

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17 hours ago, RodHagen said:

You or someone else linked to that short story on the MC I think.  I read it and liked it.  Normally when a gay guy wins the Man Booker I rush to read his novel, his style doesn't grab me so it will be awhile, and anyway currently, I'm loving The Deviant's War.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/books/review/deviants-war-eric-cervini.html

 

 

 

 

What is the MC you refer to?

What was it about The Englishman you liked if the style turned you off?

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On 11/21/2020 at 7:13 AM, Pete1111 said:

What is the MC you refer to?

What was it about The Englishman you liked if the style turned you off?

Nothing about the style of his short story (I haven't read The Englishman) turned me off, it just wasn't a particularly captivating style like say Colm Toibin or Dennis Cooper.  I will read The Englishman.

The MC:

https://www.message-forum.net/

 

p.s. I'm fairly certain Colm Toibin won the prize one year, a phenomenal gay writer.

 

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