Howard Jacobson, Bloomsbury, $15 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-60819-611-1
Winner of the 2010 Booker Prize, Jacobson’s wry, devastating novel examines the complexities of identity and belonging, love and grief, through the lens of contemporary Judaism. Julian Treslove, a former BBC producer who works as a celebrity double,
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Howard Jacobson, Author Overlook Press $35 (502p) ISBN 978-0-87951-521-8
When fast-breaking political events forced British novelist Jacobson ( Peeping Tom ) to put off a trip to Lithuania planned as a search for his Jewish roots, he accepted an offer from the BBC to visit Jewish communities around the globe instead....
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Howard Jacobson, Author Overlook Press $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-87951-522-5
As he has proved in previous books (Coming from Behind, etc.), British writer Jacobson is nothing if not daring; he is not afraid to take on the canons of social respectability and religious doctrine. His fifth novel proves characteristically...
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Howard Jacobson, Bloomsbury, $16 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-60819-685-2
First published in the U.K. in 1999, the stateside latest (after The Finkler Question) from Man Booker–winner Jacobson chronicles the mordantly funny (and highly autobiographical) coming-of-age of Oliver Walzer as he contends with his neurotic...
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Howard Jacobson. Bloomsbury, $16 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-60819-687-6
Published in England in 1998 but only now reaching the U.S., Jacobson's novel immediately plunges the reader into the rising discord between Frank, an award-winning TV critic, and his partner, Melissa, author of "feministical-erotic novels," as...
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Howard Jacobson. Bloomsbury, $18 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-60819-798-9
Drawing his title from an old Groucho Marx joke in A Night at the Opera, Man Booker Prize–winner Jacobson (The Finkler Question) gathers a selection of his columns since 1998 from the Independent, in no particular order. With wry humor, razor-sharp...
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Garth Davis, with Howard Jacobson. HarperOne, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-227930-9
Weight loss surgeon Davis (The Expert’s Guide to Weight Loss Surgery) convincingly argues that the best way to eat for health and longevity consists of a diet high in plants and low in meat. He asserts that though it might seem that “scientists are...
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Howard Jacobson, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (450p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4342-8
British comic author Jacobson unfolds his mordantly unsettling but hilarious ninth novel in retrospect. Cartoonist Max Glickman has built an uncertain career lampooning his own Judaism, while his relationships have been restricted to "women with
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Howard Jacobson, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (333p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9423-9
In his naughtily erudite 10th novel, British author Jacobson (Kalooki Nights
) explores the nature of the erotic with a wicked twist. Narrator Felix Quinn, a fusty antiquarian bookseller in contemporary London, wants to cuckold himself in order to &#
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Howard Jacobson, Author Viking Books $17.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-670-81541-8
G'day, sport. Jacobson (Coming from Behind, Peeping Tom can be as funny as a drenched drongo, jes' the kind of Pommie we in Owstriylia love. His story of the conversion of Karl Leon (pronounced ""Leeorhn'') Forelock, Cambridge University grad in...
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Howard Jacobson. Bloomsbury, $17 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-60819-686-9
In Man Booker Prize–winner (for The Finkler Question) Jacobson’s 2002 novel, only now being released in the U.S., Marvin Kreitman and Charlie Merriweather, friends for 20 years, meet once a week for dim sum. Kreitman, “the luggage baron of South...
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Howard Jacobson. Bloomsbury, $20 (528p) ISBN 978-1-60819-895-5
Originally published 25 years ago in the U.K., this travelogue recounts the author’s time in Australia in the mid-1980s. Jacobsen, a 2010 Booker Award winner Jacobson (for The Finkler Question), certainly knows how to turn a phrase. His probing...
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Howard Jacobson. Crown/Hogarth, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-41955-9
Jacobson' Booker prize shortlisted dystopian novel is a pastoralist's 1984. Set in a quiet village after a global cataclysm—referred to only as WHAT HAPPENED, IF IT HAPPENED—the novel is initially as much concerned about the eccentrics down at the...
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Howard Jacobson. Hogarth, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8041-4132-1
In the second Hogarth retelling of Shakespeare (following Jeanette Winterson’s retelling of The Winter’s Tale), Booker winner Jacobson plunks an unchanged Shylock into present-day suburban Manchester for a take on The Merchant of Venice. When...
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Howard Jacobson. Hogarth, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-984824-21-9
Booker-winner Jacobson’s latest is a deliciously entertaining, rollicking dark comedy about nonagenarians searching for meaning while confronting their deepest fears. Beryl Dusinbery has survived countless marriages and torrid love affairs yet finds
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Howard Jacobson. Bloomsbury, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-60819-938-9
Man Booker Prize-winner Jacobson (The Finkler Question) returns with this smiling meta-look at a novelist struggling to find his next book in a world where there are more writers than readers (and where, "Whatever else, fiction was fucked.") Forty-th
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