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Wed 07 Jul 2008An Irishman's 'great American novel' early favourite to win Booker prize
Two Irish authors, Joseph O'Neill and Sebastian Barry, are on the Man Booker longlist - along with five first novels and perennial favoured son Salman Rushdie
GEOGRAPHY, AS much as the enduring legacy of post- colonialism, is central in the novels selected for this year's Man Booker Prize. Among the 13 books featured on the longlist which was announced in London yesterday is the latest contender for the "great American novel", Netherland, which was written by an Irishman, Joseph O'Neill.
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