Beatty calls his fourth novel “a hard sell” for UK publishers. His rumbustious, lyrically poetic novel was turned down, his agent confirms, by no fewer than 18 publishers. The Sellout rips up rulebook for what award-winning fiction looks like Read more“It’s weird for me,” says Beatty, who is 54. It is certainly a book in which one gasps frequently – amid deeply uncomfortable laughter and, at times, tears. “It doesn’t do anyone any favours to compare them to Gabriel García Márquez … I tell them, ‘Try to be unique.’”Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I think it’s a good book’ … Beatty at the Booker ceremony.

Source: The Guardian October 26, 2016 17:08 UTC