Coming from Behind - Couverture rigide

Jacobson, Howard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701126582 ISBN 13 : 9780701126582

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1983

Synopsis

Light wear to boards with corners lightly bumped. Content is clean and bright with only minor foxing to fore pages and spotting to pages ends. Good DJ with wear to edges, minor chipping to top of spine ends and slight fading to spine. Signed and inscribed by author to ffep and just signed to title page.

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: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701126582
• ISBN 13: 9780701126582
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible