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Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
This is bottom of my personal rankings for this year's prize, but to some extent that is a measure of the consistency of the list. Its view of a youth boxing tournament from the perspectives of each of the eight female competitors is an interesting approach, but having eight protagonists make it a little repetitive and some of the descriptions are a little grating if only because they are repeated so many times. It would probably make a greater impact on someone less familiar with the tropes of sports journalism.
This is bottom of my personal rankings for this year's prize, but to some extent that is a measure of the consistency of the list. Its view of a youth boxing tournament from the perspectives of each of the eight female competitors is an interesting approach, but having eight protagonists make it a little repetitive and some of the descriptions are a little grating if only because they are repeated so many times. It would probably make a greater impact on someone less familiar with the tropes of sports journalism.
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Sep 13, 2024 08:46AM
I absolutely loved this one - the lives of these young women seen through the lens of the tournament. Wonderfully American too.
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I didn't like this one very much, but I think the Booker judges might.
Tim wrote: "I absolutely loved this one - the lives of these young women seen through the lens of the tournament. Wonderfully American too."I enjoyed this one very much too. I found it to be a refreshing style of writing.
