The bottle factory outing
About this book
The Bottle Factory Outing is a 1974 novel by English writer Beryl Bainbridge. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year, won the Guardian Fiction Prizehttps://sites.google.com/a/unca.edu/britishliteraryprizes/home/guardian-fiction-prize Guardian Fiction Prize - britishliteraryprizes] Retrieved 2012-11-23. and is regarded as one of her best.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jul/04/beryl-bainbridge-obituary-an-wilson Beryl Bainbridge remembered] Obituary by AN Wilson, The Observer, 4 July 2010. It is also listed as one of the 100 greatest novels of all time by Robert McCrum of The Observer.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/12/features.fiction The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list], Robert McCrum, The Observer, 12 October 2003 The book was inspired by Beryl Bainbridges own experiences working as a cellar girl in a bottling factory after her divorce in 1959.http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-literary-criticism/bainbridge-beryl Beryl Bainbridge Criticism (Vol. 131)] from ENotes. Retrieved 2008-10-01.A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English, edited by Harry Blamires, publ. 1983 by Methuen, , page 13
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How long does it take to read The bottle factory outing?
About ≈ 3 h 08 m — 169 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The bottle factory outing?
169 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The bottle factory outing?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Is The bottle factory outing in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote The bottle factory outing?
Bainbridge, Beryl (1193–2010).
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