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Summary:AUBERON WAUGH ACCUSES THE BOOKER PRIZE OF DISTORTING LITERARY CRITICISM AND MISLEADING THE PUBIC INTO BUYING DULL BOOKS, OVER-HYPED BY MEDIA ATTENTION. TO BOOKER PLC THE PRIZE IS MERELY A PUBLIC RELATIONS EXERCISE; A GLITZY DINNER AND POSITIVE CORPORATE IMAGE. THE ONLY CRITERIA THE JUDGES SEEM TO HAVE IS THAT OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, THUS OBSCURE, CONTRIVED AND UNIMAGINATIVE BOOKS WIN MERELY BECAUSE THEIR HEART SEEMS TO BE IN THE RIGHT PLACE, AND GREAT NOVELISTS SUCH AS MARTIN AMIS ARE OVERLOOKED.
Description:A FIFTH SERIES OF THE SUCCESSFUL STRAND FOR WITHOUT WALLS