Holiday
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It would be…it would be so nice… In 2006, the first few chapters of âHolidayâ â winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 â were sent incognito to various literary agents by a waggish Sunday Time journalist. Inevitably, all but one rejected them. What does this prove? Not much. Simply that the opening of Middletonâs novel â set in a church during a Sunday service â does not scream âbestsellerâ. What it does is quietly, acutely and idiosyncratically introduce the storyâs protagonist, 32-year-old Edwin Fisher. No believer, he hums the…
The Old Story Stanley Middleton, Holiday`Fifty years hence, someone will pull me out of his head. I am not displeased.’ Thus Stanley Middleton in a poem recalling names from his past. Author of over 40 novels, joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1975, Middleton refused an honour from the Wilson government, and published Holiday to refute Auberon Waugh’s dictum that flashbacks were the death of any good novel. In fact flashback is an inherent part of the structure of Holiday, whose hero, Edwin…
Just another walk on the Prom… Middleton’s Holiday is a delightful, thoughtful, emotional journey. His sense of time and place is wonderful, as we join our protagonist Fisher on a short holiday in an English east coast seaside resort. He has recently left his wife, and seems to be retreating to his childhood as he heads for the resort he always visited as a child with his controlling father. In fact the whole week is filled with flashbacks to his childhood, and to the early years of his marriage. It comes as a surprise to…