Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) - Couverture souple

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Jacobson, Howard

 
9780099593287: Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
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ISBN 10 : 0099593289 ISBN 13 : 9780099593287
Editeur : Vintage, 2016

Synopsis

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

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Winner of the Booker Prize
'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday

'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

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Winner of the Booker Prize
'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday

'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

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Éditeur
Vintage
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0099593289
ISBN 13 
9780099593287
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  0804141347 ISBN 13 :  9780804141345
Editeur : Hogarth Press, 2016
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