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15%OFFHoward Jacobson - Pussy - 9781787330207 - V9781787330207
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Pussy

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Description for Pussy Paperback. Tells 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 egotistic; has no manners, and no curiosity. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 153. .
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 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 egotistic; has no manners, no curiosity, no knowledge, no idea and no words in which to express them. Could he, in that case, be the very leader to make the country great again?

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781787330207
SKU
V9781787330207
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Ref
99-16

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 Pussy
A satire in Swiftian vein, this is Howard Jacobson's fifteenth novel and first hand grenade. If Trump's policy is to move fast and break things, then he has a competitor in Jacobson, who began Pussyv in the aftermath of Trump's election victory and completed well before Trump's catastrophic failure to repeal Obamacare... It has all the qualities of a fleet ... Read more

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