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Wed 09 Sep 2009Trevor's omission from Booker line-up met with shock
While Mantel, Byatt, Waters, Coetzee, Foulds and Mawer all made it, many more did not, writes EILEEN BATTERSBY, Literary Correspondent
OH TRAVESTY of travesties, this year’s Man Booker prize runs the risk of being remembered largely for the disappointingly shortsighted omission of William Trevor’s virtuoso elegy, Love and Summer, rather than for whichever of the six shortlisted novels actually wins next month.
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