Carey on YD

Professor John Carey strokes Yellow Dog

Quoted in the Times, 15 August 2003:

The chairman of the Booker Prize judges, Professor John Carey--writer, academic and broadcaster--on Yellow Dog:

"Amis's is not a perfect book, of course, but it's got writing in it that's better than anything on the list. There's a bit about killing a fly with an aerosol flyspray which is a fantastic half-page of writing."

Carey said people have failed to realise that his satire on the Royal Family is a "fantastic and extravagant book" in the style of Jonathan Swift:

"He's not writing The Archers. People have got on the wrong wavelength. It has enormous literary power."

A shortlist will be announced on September 16. The final winner will be announced on October 14 at an awards ceremony in the British Museum.

The judging panel for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2003 includes the writer, academic and critic A.C. Grayling, the record-breaking mountaineer and journalist Rebecca Stephens, MBE, the novelist, broadcaster and presenter Francine Stock, and the novelist, biographer and literary critic D.J. Taylor.

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