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J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
36.99 NZD
Category: General 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
J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
27.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
29.99 NZD
Category: General 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: General 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
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer'A wonderful memoir, written with great linguistic brio. Candid, shrewd and moving - a classic of its kind.' - William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious of course - but don't let the self-ribbing fool you; thi ...Show more
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
48.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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: Humour | 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: Classic Books | 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
59.99 NZD
Category: General 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: Non-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 SupplementWeek after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting ...Show more
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'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 and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friend ...Show more
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. '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 and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and televisio ...Show more