Howard Jacobson

• Feb-1983
• / General Fiction
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The Exagoge is a drama on the theme of the Jewish Exodus, written in Greek in the form of a Greek tragedy by a Jew living in Alexandria probably at some time during the second century BC. It survives in 269 lines - not isolated verses but forming sev...

• Feb-1984
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Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organized games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving An...

• Jul-1987
• / General Fiction
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It was just my luck to get bitten by a Redback. 'There's no such thing as luck', Gunnar McMurphy used to say. 'You chose to sit where you sat. A bite is a transaction between two parties - A biter and a biteree. You sat in wait for that spider with e...

• Apr-1992
• / General Fiction
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This is, in part the story of Cain and Abel, told from the point of view of Cain. It is also about the nature of family relationships and sibling rivalry and about Jewishness. Along the way the book makes observations about skin problems among angels...

• Jul-1999
• / General Fiction
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Beyond believing that he is the reincarnation of a nineteenth-century novelist and insatiable voyeur, Barney Fugleman's penchant for perversity prompts him to play a passive role in a menage a trois of his own design...

• Jun-2000
• / General Fiction
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Oliver Walzer is a natural--at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tu...

• Apr-2003
• / General Fiction
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Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or at
least he lives for women. At present he loves four women--his mother,
his wife Hazel, and his two daughters--and is in love with five more.
Charlie Merriweather, ...

• Sep-2004
• / General Fiction
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Man Booker Prize�"Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTIONSwathed in his kimono, drinking tea from his samovar, Henry Nagle is temperamentally opposed to life in the 21st century. Preferring not to contemplate the great intellectual and worldly s...

• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction
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Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. Growing up, Max is surrounded by Jews, each with an entirely different and outsp...

• Jan-2008
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• Mar-2009
• / General Fiction
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In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece, Kalooki Nights, acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is unfaithful to him. All h...

• Oct-2010
• / Literary
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Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've nev...

• Oct-2011
• / Literary
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Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writes crap all day. It's a life. Or it was a life. Now they're fighting, locked in oral combat. He w...

• Mar-2012
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• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and da...

• Oct-2014
• / Literary
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Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson’s brilliant and profound new novel, J, “invites comparison with George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World” (Sunday Times, London). Set in a world where collective memory has vanished an...

• Feb-2016
• / Literary
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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 �...

• May-2017
• / Fantasy
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A provocatively entertaining, savagely funny satire on Donald Trump by Britain’s greatest comic novelist.Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes...

• Sep-2019
• / Literary
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From Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J: a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything -- including her own children. She spends her days stit...