from the publisher, T. Bent/Sr.
Ed/timarcade@aol.com ,
Booker Prize
Just to let readers know that THE RESTRAINT OF BEASTS has
been placed on the Booker Prize short list. The author, who
is a bus driver (the Brixton-to-London-Central route), got
the news while he was working. The dispatcher called it in.
The story behind this novel is the stuff of dreams--from
writing between shifts, to getting a quote from Thomas
Pynchon, to getting on the Booker Short List. Best of all is
that the book is a compact little masterpiece.