'A wonderful memoir, written with great linguistic brio. Candid,
shrewd and moving - a classic of its kind,' William Boyd Howard
Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to
becoming a writer. It's my theory that only the unhappy, the
uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make
art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were
ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in every sense the
wrong way round. In Mother's Boy, Booker-Prize winner Howard
Jacobson reveals how he became a writer. It is an exploration of
belonging and not-belonging, of being an insider and outsider, both
English and Jewish. Born to a working-class family in 1940s
Manchester, the great-grandson of Lithuanian and Russian
immigrants, Jacobson was raised by his mother, grandmother and aunt
Joyce. His father was a regimental tailor, as well as an
upholsterer, a market-stall holder, a taxi driver, a balloonist,
and a magician. Grappling always with his family's history and his
Jewish identity, Jacobson takes us from the growing pains of
childhood to studying at Cambridge under F.R. Leavis, and landing
in Sydney as a maverick young professor on campus, through to his
first marriage, the birth of his son and beyond. Full of Jacobson's
trademark humour and infused with bittersweet memories of his
parents, this is the story of a writer's beginnings.
'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious of course - but don't let
the self-ribbing fool you; this is deep and poignant,' Simon Schama
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