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Author Overwhelmed

17 June 2002

Author Overwhelmed

It's like being 'hit on the back of the head by a blunt object--in a good way.

Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto, which has just, rather unexpectedly won the 2002 Orange Prize for Fiction. The book had very high odds against it. 'It ranks with Senegal beating France in the World Cup as one of the best results for us this summer,' commented one delighted bookie.