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Shylock is My Name
The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
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Artikel-Nr:
9780099593287
Veröffentl:
2016
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Howard Jacobson
Gewicht:
207 g
Format:
198x128x20 mm
Serie:
Hogarth Shakespeare
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six 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.
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 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 ...
'Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream' Evening Standard
'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday
A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life.