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100 1 $aTodd, Richard,$d1949-
245 10 $aConsuming fictions :$bthe Booker Prize and fiction in Britain today /$cRichard Todd.
246 3 $aBooker Prize and fiction in Britain today
246 3 $aBooker McConnell Prize
260 $aLondon :$bBloomsbury,$c1996.
300 $axii, 340 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 319-333).
520 $aDrawing on the wide experience of a range of consultants including writers, publishers and booksellers, Richard Todd explains how literary prizes work and analyses who is reading and who is buying.
505 20 $tIntroduction.$gp. 1.
505 20 $g1.$tA. S. Byatt's Possession: An International Literary Success.$gp. 25.
505 20 $tReception of English Fiction in the USA.$gp. 33.
505 20 $tPossession and Consumerism.$gp. 41.
505 20 $tRiches of Possession.$gp. 44.
505 20 $g2.$tLiterary Prizes and the Media.$gp. 55.
505 20 $tBooker Prize: History and Adjudication.$gp. 61.
505 20 $tBooker Prize: Rules and Mythology.$gp. 71.
505 20 $tBooker Prize: Eligibility and Nationality.$gp. 77.
505 20 $tCompetition: The Trask Awards, the Whitbread Awards, the Sunday Express Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Others.$gp. 86.
505 20 $g3.$tCanon and Commerce.$gp. 95.
505 20 $tBooker Prize and Related Sales: Expectations and Disappointments.$gp. 103.
505 20 $tWaterstone's, Dillons and the Retail Book Trade.$gp. 121.
505 20 $g4.$tNew Fiction from Scotland.$gp. 131.
505 20 $tExperiment and Collectivism: Alasdair Gray.$gp. 141.
505 20 $tJustifying the 'Nasty': Iain Banks.$gp. 148.
505 20 $tIronic Betrayal: A. L. Kennedy.$gp. 156.
505 20 $g5.$tFantasies of London: Past and Present.$gp. 164.
505 20 $tRealigning the City: Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair.$gp. 168.
505 20 $tRecapturing Popular Entertainment: Peter Ackroyd and Angela Carter.$gp. 179.
505 20 $tResisting Dead Ends: Martin Amis.$gp. 188.
505 20 $g6.$tSilenced Voices and Hidden Histories.$gp. 198.
505 20 $tParadise Colonized -- Historical Fictions of the Caribbean and the American South: Caryl Phillips, Fred D'Aguiar, Marina Warner, J. M. Coetzee, Barry Unsworth.$gp. 198.
505 20 $tHeterodoxies of Gender -- The Suppression of Stories: Paul Bailey, Timothy Mo, Alan Hollinghurst.$gp. 218.
505 20 $g7.$tPerformance, Trickery, History and Narrative Graham Swift, Peter Carey, Mordecai Richler.$gp. 235.
505 20 $g8.$tDomestic Performance: Julian Barnes and the Love Triangle.$gp. 260.
505 20 $g9.$tBravura Performance: Salman Rushdie and the 'Privileged Arena'.$gp. 281.
505 20 $tConclusion.$gp. 305.
505 20 $gApp. A.$tBooker shortlists and winners 1980-95.$gp. 311.
505 20 $gApp. B.$tLiterary novels appearing in Alex Hamilton's annual list of the top hundred paperback 'fastsellers' since 1982.$gp. 315.
505 20 $tSelect Bibliography.$gp. 319.
505 20 $tIndex.$gp. 335.
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