The US novelists Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler will have to beat the odds to become the first American winners of the Man Booker Prize to be announced on Tuesday night in London.
For the first time, the £50,000 prize is open to any author writing originally in English and published in the UK, but Ferriss and Fowlers books, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, described as a New York tale of existential dentistry, and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, a tale of family life where a psychologist father twins his daughter with a chimp, are the bookmakers outsiders. Previously, the prize was open to authors from the UK and Commonwealth countries, the Republic of Ireland and Zimbabwe but the prize organisers decided to throw it open for 2014 after 45 years.
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