Howard Jacobson

Broschiertes Buch

The Dog's Last Walk

(and Other Pieces)

Beschreibung

â The authorâ s prose is always a delight â a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdomâ Times Literary Supplement

Autor

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) the highly acclaimed The Act of Love and the 2010 Man Booker Prize-winning The Finkler Question. Howard Jacobson lives in London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 241615
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 211g
• ISBN-13: 9781408845127
• ISBN-10: 1408845121
• Artikelnr.: 43613504

Rezensionen

Jacobson is one of the great sentence-builders of our time. I feel I have to raise my game, even just to praise ... In short, he is one of the great guardians of language and culture - all of it. Long may he flourish Nicholas Lezard Guardian