The Blue Gate of Babylon

The Blue Gate of Babylon

First edition
Author Paul Pickering
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Literary Fiction
Publisher Chatto & Windus
Publication date
 1989
Media type Print (Hardback), (Paperback)
Pages 266
ISBN 0-7011-3413-5

The Blue Gate of Babylon is the third comic novel by British writer Paul Pickering, published by Chatto & Windus and Penguin Books in the United Kingdom and Random House in the United States, was long-listed for the Booker Prize, became a New York Times notable book of the year[1] and saw Pickering included in the Top Ten Young British Novelists.[2] The novel received favourable reviews on both sides of the Atlantic.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ The New York Times book review, 17 December 1989, and "Notable Books of the Year", 2 December 1990
  2. ↑ "Best of Young British", W H Smith News, May 1985
  3. ↑ Book review, The New York Times, 17 December 1989; Notable Books of the Year, The New York Times, 2 December 1990; The Best of Young British, W H Smith news, May 1985; Chattanooga Times Free Press, 13 December 1989; Peter Revzin, The Wall Street Journal, 15 December 1989; Cressida Connolly, Literary Review, April 1989; Le Monde, 24 April 1995; David Hughes, The Mail on Sunday, 9 April 1989; "Ian Fleming gone berserk", Boyd Tonkin, New Statesman, 7 April 1989; Times Literary Supplement, 19 May 1989; Thomas Gaughan, Booklist, 11 January 1989; Martin Seymour-Smith, The Sunday Times, 9 April 1989

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