_______________ 'Comedy is never as clever as when Howard Jacobson
is on a roll and this book finds him barrelling' - Independent on
Sunday 'Brilliantly composed ... crackling with Jacobson's wit,
superb wordplay and boundless exuberance' - Times Literary
Supplement 'Seriously funny' - Alexei Sayle, Daily Telegraph
_______________ A sharp, witty novel from the Man Booker
Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question Novelist Guy Ableman
is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful
red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble
is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More
like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a
blistering presence that destroys Guy's peace of mind, suggesting
the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate
long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy,
anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is
finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide.
His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime,
is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn't expect her to finish it,
or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does. In
flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy
wonders if it's time to take his love for Poppy to another level.
Fiction might be dead, but desire isn't. And out of that desire he
imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry, elegiac and
rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love - love of women, love of
literature, love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his
brilliant best. _______________ 'All the trademark Jacobson
qualities - waspish comedy, transgressive sex, wry riffs on
Jewishness, prose so scintillating you might miss its underlying
artistry - are here in spades *****' - The Mail on Sunday 'Once
again, Jacobson shows that the true humorist is among the best
kinds of novelist. His humour is neither cheap nor chirpy but
addresses fundamental mysteries' - Sunday Telegraph
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2013 |
Authors: |
Howard Jacobson
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Dimensions: |
198 x 130 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
375 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4088-3174-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
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LSN: |
1-4088-3174-0 |
Barcode: |
9781408831748 |
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