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Holiday (novel)

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Country
  
United Kingdom

Publication date
  
1974

ISBN
  
0-09-119910-7

Genre
  
Novel

Awards
  
3.3/5
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Language
  
English

Pages
  
239

Originally published
  
1974

Page count
  
239

Publisher
  
Hutchinson

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Similar
  
Stanley Middleton books, Booker Prize winners, Novels

Holiday is a Booker Prize-winning novel by English writer Stanley Middleton.

Contents

Plot

The novel revolves around Edwin Fisher, a lecturer who takes a holiday at a seaside resort. The work takes place entirely within the mind of Fisher, with much of the book's development dealing with the painful realities of Fisher's mind and life.

Awards

Holiday shared the 1974 Man Booker Prize for fiction with The Conservationist, by Nadine Gordimer.

In 2006, The Times re-submitted the opening chapter of the novel (along with fellow Booker winner In a Free State, by V. S. Naipaul) to 20 literary agents and publishers. Only one agent accepted Holiday, while Naipaul's novel was rejected by every house to which it was sent.

References

Holiday (novel) Wikipedia


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