Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It
(Sprache: Englisch)
A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism
A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism
A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism
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A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism
A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism
A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism
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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 aesthetics is supposed to be. But the hour passes. Good men return from fighting Satan in the wilderness the stronger for their struggle, and so do I.The winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize, Howard Jacobson, brims with life in this collection of his most acclaimed journalism. From the unusual disposal of his father-in-law's ashes and the cultural wasteland of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the melancholy sensuality of Leonard Cohen and desolation of Wagner's tragedies, Jacobson writes with all the thunder and joy of a man possessed. Absurdity piles upon absurdity, and glorious sentences weave together to create a hilarious, heartbreaking and uniquely human collection. This book is not just a series of parts, but an irresistible, unputdownable sum which triumphantly out-Thurbers Thurber.
Autoren-Porträt von Howard Jacobson
Jacobson, HowardAn 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, the 2010 Man Booker Prize-winning, The Finkler Question and, most recently, Zoo Time. Howard Jacobson lives in Soho, London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Howard Jacobson
- 2011, 368 Seiten, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1408810301
- ISBN-13: 9781408810309
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Englisch
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