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...“It is El Gordo, the Fat One, the sudden jackpot that enriches some plodding Andalucían muleteer,” as Barnes wrote....
...By that stage some of the biggest names in world fiction had already been passed over, with Don DeLillo, Annie Proulx, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Edna O’Brien, Dave Eggers, Rose Tremain and Thomas Keneally...
...The Sellout, by Paul Beatty, Oneworld, RRP£12.99/FSG, RRP$26 This year, Beatty became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for this piercing satire about a black watermelon farmer who, reluctantly...
...I stand corrected if not abashed after reading Julian Barnes’ haunting novel on the agonies of Shostakovich under Stalin and his successors....
...“Warren Beatty,” he said. “And not for the obvious reasons.” The exchange stuck in my head because of what it says about Mailer’s humour and a novelist’s task overall....
...It has done this by bringing in people who are well thought of in the industry, such as its commercial director, a former senior executive in Balfour Beatty, and by working in partnership with larger businesses...
...After my discharge in 1964, I was hired at the Nasa High Range at Beatty, Nevada, as a hypersonic flight support specialist....
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