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LIVE A LITTLE by JACOBSON HOWARD
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Category: Literature
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler QuestionA wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question.*NOMINATED FOR THE WINGATE LITERA ...Show more
Live a Little by Howard Jacobson
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her ...Show more
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
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Category: Reference Literature
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer It's my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in ...Show more
Pussy by Howard Jacobson
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Category: Humour
Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and ...Show more
Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Howard Jacobson
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Category: General | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare Ser.
Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare's most unforgettable characters: Shylock Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of "The Merchant of Venice," Shylock is juxtaposed against hi ...Show more
The Dog's Last Walk by Howard Jacobson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The author 's prose is always a delight - a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom ' Times Literary SupplementWeek after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting ...Show more
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
$35.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...'Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friend ...Show more
What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Love can change your life. Can it survive it? Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily - independent, headstrong, rational - has never quite believed in love; while Sam - confident, passionate, romantic - thought he understood i ...Show more
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