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

Buch 2 von 6: Shakespeare Retold

Jacobson, Howard

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

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099593289
ISBN 13 
9780099593287
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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