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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

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

    $11.59 USD

  • The Dog's Last Walk

    (and Other Pieces)

    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

    $15.49 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Zoo Time

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    Reading is over. Writing is finished. Publishing is dead. Embittered author Guy Ableman knows this, as does his desperate editor; as does the sad whole of doomed literary London. But Guy is dedicated to his dying art, and continues to write for an audience that doesn't exist, loathed by the few readers he does have - feminists who charge him with misogyny, mothers who accuse him of hating children ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • In the Land of Oz

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question went Down Under, and this is what he hilariously found.On what he calls “the adventure of his life,” Howard Jacobson travels around Australia, never entirely sure where he is heading next or whether he has the courage to tackle the wild life of the bush, the wild men of the outback, or the even wilder women of the seaboard cities.In ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Live a Little

    A Novel

    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

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $14.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Mighty Walzer

    A Novel

    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

    $11.29 USD

  • Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It

    The Best of Howard Jacobson

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with self-dislike, I try to imagine myself as someone else, a wearer of Yarmouth shirts and fleecy sweats, of windbreakers and rugged Tyler shorts, of baseball caps with polo players where the section of the brain that concerns itself with ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • No More Mr. Nice Guy

    A Novel

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writes crap all day. It's a life. Or it was a life. But now they're fighting, locked in oral combat. He won't shut up and she is putting her finger down her throat again. So there's only one thing for it -- Frank has to go.But go where? And do what? ... Read more

    $11.29 USD