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J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Man Booker 2014 Shortlist
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 father a ...Show more
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper seductively to him of Buchenwald, extermination, and the impossib ...Show more
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
$59.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper seductively to him of Buchenwald, extermination, and the impossib ...Show more
Live a Little by Howard Jacobson
$35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her ...Show more
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer It's my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in ...Show more
Pussy by Howard Jacobson
$32.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
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 ...Show more
Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Howard Jacobson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare Ser.
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 "The Merchant of Venice," Shylock is juxtaposed against hi ...Show more
The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson
$60.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 rejec ...Show more
The Dog's Last Walk by Howard Jacobson
$26.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
The author 's prose is always a delight - a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom ' Times Literary SupplementWeek after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting ...Show more
The Dog's Last Walk: (and Other Pieces) by Howard Jacobson
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
`The author's prose is always a delight ... a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' Times Literary Supplement Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecti ...Show more