The Prize is a kind of contemporary fiction called a "summer novel" or a "beach book." Its length, topicality, varied plots, and numerous moments of suspense fill a reader's leisure hours with diverting but not difficult material. The book is easy to pick up, put down, and pick up again.
Such novels have an ancient lineage.
Knightly romances of the seventeenthcentury ran to hundreds of thousands of words, featuring numerous plot lines and multiple characters to divert aristocrats in.....
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