conclude you read for two hours to decide if you’ve found a pleasant book? From now on,I’m just reading page 112I try my hardest to keep up with literary prize-related reading but I’m hopelessly behind on the latest Booker, Costa and Samuel Johnson winners (although I thoroughly and wholeheartedly recommend Andrew Michael Hurley’s Costa first novel award-winning The Loney). It’s depressing, and sometimes,to confess that I’m never going to fetch up to date. So I was relieved to see, thanks to the Complete Review, or a literary prize that I can fetch on board with: Le Prix de la Page 112,which has just announced its shortlist.
Inspired by a line from Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters – “Don’t forget the poem on page 112. It reminded me of you!” – the French literary award asks its jury, at first, or to read only page 112 of each novel.
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Source: theguardian.com