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- Publisher: NY (1980)
- ASIN: B000N6P0YC
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An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and, most recently, the highly acclaimed The Act of Love. Howard Jacobson lives in London.
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Howard Jacobson gives us another hilarious portrait of a difficult man, this one sixty-year-old Henry, neurotic, Jewish, alone, and waiting to die. (Are you laughing yet?) Jacobson is a genius, an irresistible story-teller whose sentences cry out to be shared, savored, cherished. The Making of Henry is, of all things, a romantic comedy, though its hero is about as unlikely a candidate for love and marriage as has ever been imagined for the genre. Jacobson always makes me glad to be in his company; in this book, for a change of pace, he also offers a happy ending.
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Stern Girls, Osmond Belkin, North Manchester, Izzi Nagel, High Street, Norma Jean, Henry Nagel, Fouad Yafi, Totter Down, Louis Stevenson, Warren Shukman, Henry Henry, Miss Rawlins, East European, Mel Belkin, Uncle Izzi, Midland Hotel, Rivka Yoffey, University of the Pennine Way, Spot the Wej, Aaron Eisenfeldt, Middle Eastern, Ask Henry, Taugetz Henry, Henry James Browse Sample Pages:
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Stern Girls, Osmond Belkin, North Manchester, Izzi Nagel, High Street, Norma Jean, Henry Nagel, Fouad Yafi, Totter Down, Louis Stevenson, Warren Shukman, Henry Henry, Miss Rawlins, East European, Mel Belkin, Uncle Izzi, Midland Hotel, Rivka Yoffey, University of the Pennine Way, Spot the Wej, Aaron Eisenfeldt, Middle Eastern, Ask Henry, Taugetz Henry, Henry James Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction by Richard Bradford on page 149
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