The Making of Henry - Couverture souple

Jacobson, Howard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 140007861X ISBN 13 : 9781400078615

Editeur : Anchor Books, 2004

Synopsis

Man Booker Prize-Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTION

Swathed in his kimono, drinking tea from his samovar, Henry Nagle is temperamentally opposed to life in the 21st century. Preferring not to contemplate the great intellectual and worldly success of his best boyhood friend, he argues constantly with his father, an upholsterer turned fire-eater-and now dead for many years. When he goes out at all, Henry goes after other men's wives.

But when he mysteriously inherits a sumptuous apartment, Henry's life changes, bringing on a slick descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson, an excitable red setter, and a wise-cracking waitress with a taste for danger. All of them demand his attention, even his love, a word which barely exists in Henry's magisterial vocabulary, never mind his heart.

From one of England's most highly regarded writers, The Making of Henry is a ravishing novel, at once wise, tender and mordantly funny.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Howard Jacobson is the author of four works of nonfiction and several novels, including The Finkler Question, which won the Man Booker Prize; The Mighty Walzer, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for comic writing; and Who's Sorry Now?, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize. He has a weekly column for The Independent and regularly reviews and writes for The Guardian, The Times, and The Evening Standard. Jacobson has also done several specials for British television. He lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Anchor Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 140007861X
• ISBN 13: 9781400078615
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible