{"id":5088,"date":"2010-05-30T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2010-05-30T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T23:56:08","slug":"i-would-like-to-inspect-the-hanging-chads-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=5088","title":{"rendered":"I Would Like to Inspect the Hanging Chads, Please."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/newlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/TroublesBookJacket1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/newlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/TroublesBookJacket1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"TroublesBookJacket1\" width=\"178\" height=\"185\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5089\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Lost Man Booker Prize&#8221; has been awarded to&#8230;&#8230;..the wrong book.<\/p>\n<p>The designated &#8220;best book&#8221; of 1970 has finally won its Man Booker prize. <em>Troubles,<\/em> by J. G. Farrell, was anointed the winner of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lost Man Booker Prize,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a one-time-only award intended to honor the books that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153missed out an opportunity to win the Booker Prize in 1970&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p> 4,000 readers worldwide cast their votes for their favourite shortlisted novel via the Man Booker Prize website &#8211; with <em>Troubles<\/em> taking 38% of the vote, more than double that of other contenders. Harumph.<\/p>\n<p> Voters chose from a shortlist of six selected by a panel of three judges, all of whom were born in or around 1970. The shortlist included <em>The Birds on the Trees<\/em> by Nina Bawden (Virago); <em>The Bay of Noon<\/em> by Shirley Hazzard (Virago); <em>Fire From Heaven<\/em> by Mary Renault (Arrow);  <em>The Vivisector<\/em> by Patrick White (Vintage) and my pick &#8211; which I talked in length about last month &#8211; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=2705\">The Driver&#8217;s Seat<\/a><\/em> by Muriel Spark (Penguin). <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Lost Man Booker Prize&#8221; has been awarded to&#8230;&#8230;..the wrong book. The designated &#8220;best book&#8221; of 1970 has finally won its Man Booker prize. Troubles, by J. G. Farrell, was anointed the winner of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lost Man Booker Prize,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=5088\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[489,490,499,549,819],"class_list":["post-5088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lost-booker-prize","tag-lost-man-booker-prize","tag-man-booker-prize","tag-muriel-spark","tag-troubles-by-jg-farrell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}