Holiday (novel)

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name = Holiday
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author = Stanley Middleton
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Hutchinson
release_date = 1974
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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"Holiday" is a Booker Prize-winning novel by English author Stanley Middleton.

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

[http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/03/holiday_stanley_middleton.html Review of "Holiday" from the Booker Blog 'The Guardian'] [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article784051.ece "Holiday" re-submitted as a joke to publishers]