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Not all middlebrow literary experiences are comfortable. To place a bet on the Man Booker Prize, I had to leave the bright noise of Finchley Road and walk down lurid, carpeted stairs, past a row of old men whose faces were lit by flickering TV screens. Behind a perspex counter, a young woman with spiky pink hair stared at me impassively.
‘I’d like to place a bet on the Booker Prize.’
She blinked.
‘The what?’
‘It’s a prize. For books.’
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© 2014 Beth Driscoll
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Driscoll, B. (2014). The Man Booker Prize: Money, Glory and Media Spectacle. In: The New Literary Middlebrow. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402929_5
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