Salon.com > aftermath http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 03:44:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Shrewd takedown of Rachel Cusk’s “Aftermath” wins Hatchet Job of the Year Award http://www.salon.com/2013/02/13/shrewd_takedown_of_rachel_cusks_aftermath_wins_hatchet_job_of_the_year_award/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/13/shrewd_takedown_of_rachel_cusks_aftermath_wins_hatchet_job_of_the_year_award/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:57:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13200192 Camilla Long is now the proud winner of a hatchet, a large red cake and a year’s supply of potted shrimp, all thanks to her biting Sunday Times review of Rachel Cusk's "Aftermath." The dubious gifts are a part of the Hatchet Job of the Year Award, an annual honor bestowed by U.K.-based literary website Omnivore to a critic who writes the "angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review" of the past 12 months.

Long's review beat vitriol spewed from the likes of Ron Charles on Martin Amis, Zoe Heller on Salman Rushdie, and Suzanne Moore on Naomi Wolf. One the award's judges, Lynn Barber, told the Guardian, "I thought what was wonderful about Camilla's review was that it totally hatcheted the book, but in such an intriguing way that I then thought I must read 'Aftermath' – and did, and loved it because it was just as weird as Camilla said," said Barber. "So a hatchet job isn't necessarily a turnoff."

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