Coming From Behind - Couverture souple

Jacobson, Howard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099452030 ISBN 13 : 9780099452034

Editeur : Vintage, 2003

Synopsis

Sefton Goldberg - mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands - is gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessively, he plans the ultimate revenge - a bestselling novel celebrating his own failure.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question.

'A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read it' Malcolm Bradbury

Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure - morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries - so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject.

In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another's success...

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure - morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries - so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject.

In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another's success...

From the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099452030
• ISBN 13: 9780099452034
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256