Outsider's 'Weepie' Takes the Booker

Daily MailOctober 17, 2007

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A RANK outsider has won the Pounds 50,000 Man Booker Prize for writing 'the intellectual equivalent of a Hollywood weepie'.

Mother-of-two Anne Enright sold fewer books than any of her rivals on the competition shortlist -- but that didn't stop The Gathering being most popular with the judges.

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Outsider's 'Weepie' Takes the Booker

The 45-year-old beat the likes of Lloyd Jones, whose novel Mister Pip was the b...

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