A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism
An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, 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 novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), the highly acclaimed The Act of Love and, most recently, the Man Booker Prize 2010-winning The Finkler Question. Howard Jacobson lives in London.
Praise for The Finkler Question: 'The depth of human understanding
and lightness of touch combine in beautiful and compelling ways. It
is all that it seems and always more than it seems: plangent,
forthright but subtle, always melancholy and funny' * Sir Andrew
Motion *
'A real giant, a great, great writer' * Jonathan Safran Foer *
'Another masterpiece ... How is it possible to read Howard Jacobson
and not lose oneself in admiration for the music of his language,
the power of his characterisation and the penetration of his
insight?' * The Times *
'Brilliant ... The greatest novelist working in Britain today' *
Mail on Sunday *
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