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  • Branswell, Helen

    Canadian Press NewsWire, 10/1998
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    Beryl Bainbridge's novel Master Georgie was favoured by Britain's bookmakers to take the 20,000 pound ($52,000 Cdn) prize. But as is often the case with the Booker, the judges overlooked the favourite and selected Ian McEwan's Amsterdam. McEwan professed to be "quite stunned" at his victory, having twice before experienced rejection at the hand of the Booker. "My foreign secretary is a very long way from Douglas Hurd. Douglas appears to be wearing male clothes," McEwan noted when he met with journalists later.