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Shylock is My Name
Howard Jacobson
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Description for Shylock is My Name
Paperback. BIC Classification: DDS. Dimension: 136 x 215 x 23. Weight in Grams: 308.
‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’
With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship.
Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative Plurabelle (aka Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Christine) is the face of her own TV series, existing in a bubble of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hogarth
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780701188993
SKU
9780701188993
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About Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson has written sixteen novels and five works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
Reviews for Shylock is My Name
For him to write about and inside of The Merchant of Venice seems to me a marriage made in heaven
Stephen Greenblatt Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original.
James Lasdun
Guardian
Jacobson’s writing is virtuoso. He is the master of shifting tones, from the ... Read more
Stephen Greenblatt Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original.
James Lasdun
Guardian
Jacobson’s writing is virtuoso. He is the master of shifting tones, from the ... Read more