Delighted to see David Mitchell back in the Booker Prize hunt

[John Carvill]

> I keep asking myself, what the hell has happened to British
literature?

Well, yeah, but the question I often ask is who were the British writers
who could compare to the great American post WWII ones such as Bellow,
Roth, Mailer, etc. and of course Pynchon?

I think it was on the back of the book that someone said, re. Franzen's
'Corrections', "no-one on this [England's] side of the Atlantic is
writing at this picth right now" and you'd have to agree with that,
whether or not you think Franzen is as great as he clearly aims to be.

I've never had much luck with Amis, McEwan, etc. In fact my favourite
current Brit author is Jonathan Coe, particularly 'What A Carve Up'
(sometimes known in the US as 'The Winshaw Legacy'.

Cheers

JC






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