Howard Jacobson
An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester in 1942, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F R Leavis.
He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge.
His books include The Mighty Walzer (1999), winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; Kalooki Nights (2006), longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and The Finkler Question (2010), winner of the Man Booker Prize. His most recent, J, is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014.
Howard Jacobson lives in London.
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- Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-1-78733-020-7
EAN 9781787330207
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 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4529-5
EAN 9781408845295
Hilarious, heartbreaking, provocative and affecting - Howard Jacobson's irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist in all his humanity. From the tiniest absurdities to the most universal joys and desolations, Jacobson writes with a thunder, passion and wit unmatched. Just as did his previous volume, 'Whatever It Is I Don't Like It', this glorious, ...
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- Sexto Piso, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-84-16677-07-8
EAN 9788416677078
Jacobson ha creado un mundo en donde un hombre y una mujer se enamoran a partir de la más absoluta desmemoria de sus respectivos pasados, vinculados tan sólo por una gran catástrofe pasada una especie de segundo Holocausto cuyos detalles desconocen y a la que todo el mundo se refiere comúnmente como Lo que sucedió, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959328-7
EAN 9780099593287
A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. '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 of someone to talk ...
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J: A Novel
Booker Shortlist 2014
- Random House Uk, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959838-1
EAN 9780099598381
Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize Set in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Howard Jacobson, one of Britain's greatest novelists and ...
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Booker Shortlist 2014
- Jonathan Cape, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-224-10205-6
EAN 9780224102056
Set in the future, a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn't know why his ...
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Una noche, en el centro de Londres, tres amigos se reúnen para cenar. Dos de ellos acaban de enviudar y el tercero no tiene vida amorosa, sino desastres amorosos uno tras otro. La charla, que les lleva a filosofar, emborracharse y, finalmente, desvariar acabará lanzando a la luz una pregunta clave: ¿Es mejor no conocer ...
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The Finkler Question (A)
Booker 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-1846-6
EAN 9781408818466
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 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 ...
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- Vintage UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952673-5
EAN 9780099526735
Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He runs one of the oldest antiquarian bookshops in London and his wife, Marisa, is unfaithful to him. All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them.Felix hasn't always thought this way. From the moment of his first boyhood rejection, surviving the shattering effects ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927472-8
EAN 9780099274728
From the beginning 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 isnot a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of ...
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- Vintage UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927463-6
EAN 9780099274636
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. But now they're fighting, locked in oral combat. He won't shut up and she is putting her finger ...
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