Bay of Noon on 1970 ‘Lost Booker’ short list, w The Vivisector.
Posted by Gordon on June 13, 2010
“So, to the shortlist. We (the other judges were the poet and novelist Tobias Hill, and the newsreader Katie Derham) reached an agreement fairly rapidly on our first four books. The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard, a tale of Naples just after the war, is so exquisitely atmospheric – this Italy is both third-world and impossibly glamorous – that it would have been a sin not to shortlist it.”
Winner of the public vote was JG Farrell’s Troubles:
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