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The Finkler Question

A Novel

by Howard Jacobson ...

"He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one..."Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with ... Read more

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"He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one..."Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with
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Proteinaholic

How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

by Garth Davis, Howard Jacobson ...

"A book that will help you lose weight; keep it off; prevent lifestyle disease and even reverse it. . . . [E]very doctor should prescribe [it]." —Rich Roll, bestselling author of Finding Ultra and The Plantpower WayWhether you are seeing a doctor, nutritionist, or a trainer, all of them advise to eat more protein. Foods, drinks, and supplements are loaded with extra protein. Many people use ... Read more

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"A book that will help you lose weight; keep it off; prevent lifestyle disease and even reverse it. . . . [E]very doctor should prescribe [it]." —Rich Roll, bestselling author of Finding Ultra and The Plantpower WayWhether you are seeing a doctor, nutritionist, or a trainer, all of them advise to eat more protein. Foods, drinks, and supplements are loaded with extra protein. Many people use
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J

A Novel

by Howard Jacobson ...

**Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize“J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson’s triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling from the debris.” —Independent (UK)**Man Booker Prize–winner Howard Jacobson’s brilliant and profound new novel ... Read more

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**Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize“J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson’s triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling from the debris.” —Independent (UK)**Man Booker Prize–winner Howard Jacobson’s brilliant and profound new novel
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Roots Schmoots

Journeys Among Jews

by Howard Jacobson ...

From a Booker Prize-winning author, an "informed and witty" travelogue exploring America, Israel, Lithuania, and the nature of Jewish identity ( Publishers Weekly).Howard Jacobson had been hoping to make a journey to Lithuania to search for his Jewish roots. So when the BBC offered to send him around the globe to report on a variety of Jewish communities, he accepted. The trip he recounts in this ... Read more

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From a Booker Prize-winning author, an "informed and witty" travelogue exploring America, Israel, Lithuania, and the nature of Jewish identity ( Publishers Weekly).Howard Jacobson had been hoping to make a journey to Lithuania to search for his Jewish roots. So when the BBC offered to send him around the globe to report on a variety of Jewish communities, he accepted. The trip he recounts in this
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Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave

Celebrating Twenty Years of Jewish Renaissance

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Taking the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as their starting point, five new essays look at how Jewish culture has changed over the past two decades. Covering music (Vanessa Paloma Elbaz), art (Monica Bohm Duchen), literature (Bryan Cheyette), theatre (Judi Herman) and film (Nathan Abrams), the essays explore the role of confidence in the cultural output of minority communities, and ask whether the ... Read more

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Taking the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as their starting point, five new essays look at how Jewish culture has changed over the past two decades. Covering music (Vanessa Paloma Elbaz), art (Monica Bohm Duchen), literature (Bryan Cheyette), theatre (Judi Herman) and film (Nathan Abrams), the essays explore the role of confidence in the cultural output of minority communities, and ask whether the
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The Mighty Walzer

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by Howard Jacobson ...

From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural--at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis team, his game improves. And while the Akiva boys ... Read more

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From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural--at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis team, his game improves. And while the Akiva boys
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The Making of Henry

by Howard Jacobson ...

Man Booker Prize–Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTIONSwathed 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 ... Read more

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Man Booker Prize–Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTIONSwathed 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
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The Dog's Last Walk

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by Howard Jacobson ...

_______________'[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing' - The Times'The author's prose is always a delight … a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' - Times Literary Supplement'Jacobson is one of the great... ... Read more

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Who's Sorry Now?

A Novel

by Howard Jacobson ...

Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or atleast he lives for women. At present he loves four women--his mother,his wife Hazel, and his two daughters--and is in love with five more.Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, nice Charlie, loves just theone woman, also called Charlie, the wife with whom he has been writingchildren's books and having nice sex for twenty ... Read more

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Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or atleast he lives for women. At present he loves four women--his mother,his wife Hazel, and his two daughters--and is in love with five more.Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, nice Charlie, loves just theone woman, also called Charlie, the wife with whom he has been writingchildren's books and having nice sex for twenty
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Pussy

by Howard Jacobson ...

A provocatively entertaining, savagely funny satire on Donald Trump by Britain’s greatest comic novelist.Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin ... Read more

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A provocatively entertaining, savagely funny satire on Donald Trump by Britain’s greatest comic novelist.Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin
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Shylock Is My Name

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel

by Howard Jacobson ...

Series series Hogarth Shakespeare
Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: ShylockWinter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. With ... Read more

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Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: ShylockWinter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. With
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Live a Little

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by Howard Jacobson ...

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J, and one of “our funniest writers alive” (Allison Pearson): a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love.At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything—including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. She spends her days stitching macabre messages into her needlework ... Read more

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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J, and one of “our funniest writers alive” (Allison Pearson): a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love.At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything—including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. She spends her days stitching macabre messages into her needlework
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