Booker Record Intact; Enright Wins The Booker judges continued their streak of overlooking the bettors’ favorites, passing over Lloyd Jones and Ian McEwan to honor “the rank outsider” (Times) Anne Enright’s “exhilaratingly bleak” THE GATHERING and thumbing their collective noses at the British literary establishment along the way. Chair of the judging panel Howard Davies hailed Enright’s book as “a powerful, uncomfortable and even, at times, angry book… an unflinching look at a grieving family in tough and striking language.” Davies said it was “not everybody’s first choice,” but did call it “a choice with which all the judges were […]
