Coming from Behind - Couverture souple

Jacobson, Howard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014017494X ISBN 13 : 9780140174946

Editeur : Penguin, 1993

Synopsis

Marooned in the complaining confines of Wrottesley Polytechnic, English lecturer Sefton Goldberg plans the ultimate revenge - a bestselling novel celebrating his own failure. By the author of "The Very Model of a Man".

A propos du livre

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.

Revue de presse

"Howard Jacobson is one of the funniest writers alive... His writing pulsates with nerve and edge; it is colossal in its comic precision; at its best it simply tears you apart" (The Times)

"Lucky Jim undated... Witty, observant, clever, a first-rate entertainment and something more besides" (Guardian)

"Jacobson's humour is unashamedly savage and his jokes as sharp as a switch-blade... comic vitriol worthy of Evelyn Waugh" (Sunday Express)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 014017494X
• ISBN 13: 9780140174946
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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