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Howl
Häftad, 2026
199 kr
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In the aftermath of a massacre from which he doubts the world will ever recover, Ferdinand Draxler finds himself at the crossroads of history. Unless it’s just a bend in the cul-de-sac of his own gloomy nature. The son of a Holocaust survivor who accuses him of cowardice and the father of a …
Finkler Question
Häftad, 2011
152 kr
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______________WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE______________'Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding. It is also beautifully written with that sophisticated and near invisible skill of the authentic writer' - Observer'Wonderful ... Jacobson is seriously on form' - Evening …
Shylock is My Name
The Merchant of Venice, Retold
Häftad, 2026
152 kr
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Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is brilliantly reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism. With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone …
Howl
Häftad, 2027
152 kr
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A tragicomic portrait of one man's unravelling in an absurd, twisted world, Howl is the propulsive new novel from Booker-Prize winner Howard Jacobson.'A howling comic masterpiece' Patrick Marber'Brilliant' Daily TelegraphIn the aftermath of October 7, Ferdinand Draxler walks the streets of London …
Howl
Inbunden, 2026
251 kr
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A tragicomic portrait of one man's unravelling in an absurd, twisted world, Howl is the propulsive new novel from Booker-Prize winner Howard Jacobson.'A howling comic masterpiece' Patrick Marber'Boils with fury and fizzes with life' Jonathan FreedlandIn the aftermath of October 7, Ferdinand Draxler …
Proteinaholic
How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
Av Garth Davis M.D., Howard Jacobson
Häftad, 2016
137 kr
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An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry's focus on protein, explaining why it is detrimental to our health, and can prevent us from losing weight. Whether you are seeing a doctor, nutritionist, or a trainer, all of …
Proteinaholic
How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
Av Howard Jacobson, Garth Davis
E-bok, 2015
102 kr
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"A book that will help you lose weight; keep it off; prevent lifestyle disease and even reverse it. . . . [E]very doctor should prescribe [it]." —Rich Roll, bestselling author of Finding Ultra and The Plantpower WayWhether you are seeing a doctor, nutritionist, or a trainer, all of them advise to …
Mighty Walzer
Häftad, 2000
218 kr
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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 so adept, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club …
Peeping Tom
Häftad, 1999
152 kr
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Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century - and by Barney as a 'prurient little Victorian ratbag'. This curious propulsion drives him out of Finchley, and out of the …
Coming From Behind
Häftad, 2003
291 kr
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In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question.'A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read it' Malcolm BradburySefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West …
Making of Henry
Häftad, 2005
173 kr
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One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's love nest? Henry doesn't know, but he is glad to escape the North. After nearly sixty years of angry disappointment, Henry's life is about to change. Not that the ghosts …
Kalooki Nights
Häftad, 2007
239 kr
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‘This book is Jacobson’s masterpiece’ Jonathan Freedland'A work of genius' A.C. Grayling, The TimesWild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be human.Max Glickman is son to an atheist boxer, Jack 'The Jew' Glickman, and a glamorous card-playing …
Act of Love
Häftad, 2009
139 kr
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No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He owns one of London's oldest antiquarian bookshops. He is married to and adores the beautiful Marisa. But a childhood experience has taught him that loss is intrinsic to love, and …
Shylock is My Name
The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Häftad, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. ‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’ With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in …
J: A Novel
Häftad, 2015
139 kr
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A thought-provoking prescient novel from the Booker-prize winning author of The Finkler Question.‘Remarkable…May well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times’ GuardianTwo people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. They aren’t sure if …
The Exagoge of Ezekiel
Häftad, 2009
824 kr
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The Exagoge is a drama on the theme of the Jewish Exodus, written in Greek in the form of a Greek tragedy by a Jew living in Alexandria probably at some time during the second century BC. It survives in 269 lines - not isolated verses but forming several continuous passages - enough to give the …
Ovid's Heroidos
Häftad, 2015
1516 kr
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A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the Heroides. In his …
Ovid's Heroidos
Inbunden, 2016
3526 kr
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A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the Heroides. In his …
Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel
Häftad, 2016
318 kr
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Ovid's Heroidos
E-bok, 2015
1148 kr
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A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the Heroides.In his …
Finkler Question
E-bok, 2010
155 kr
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______________ WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE ______________ ''Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding. It is also beautifully written with that sophisticated and near invisible skill of the authentic writer'' - Observer ''Wonderful ... Jacobson is seriously on form'' - …
Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It
E-bok, 2011
239 kr
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_______________ ''[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 ''Yes, Jacobson is an entertainer ... And he does indeed entertain, but in a way that stimulates rather …
Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It
Häftad, 2012
215 kr
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_______________'[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'Yes, Jacobson is an entertainer ... And he does indeed entertain, but in a way that stimulates rather than …
In the Land of Oz
Häftad, 2011
257 kr
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_______________'A wildly funny account of his travels ... it actually is a book which makes you laugh out loud on almost every page' - Literary Review'The most successful attempt I know to grip the great dreaming Australian enigma by the throat and make it gargle' - Evening Standard'A marvellous …
In the Land of Oz
E-bok, 2011
264 kr
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_______________ ''A wildly funny account of his travels ... it actually is a book which makes you laugh out loud on almost every page'' - Literary Review ''The most successful attempt I know to grip the great dreaming Australian enigma by the throat and make it gargle'' - Evening Standard ''A …
Zoo Time
E-bok, 2012
113 kr
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_______________ ''Comedy is never as clever as when Howard Jacobson is on a roll and this book finds him barrelling'' - Independent on Sunday ''Brilliantly composed ... crackling with Jacobson''s wit, superb wordplay and boundless exuberance'' - Times Literary Supplement ''Seriously funny'' - …
Zoo Time
Häftad, 2013
115 kr
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_______________'Comedy is never as clever as when Howard Jacobson is on a roll and this book finds him barrelling' - Independent on Sunday'Brilliantly composed ... crackling with Jacobson's wit, superb wordplay and boundless exuberance' - Times Literary Supplement'Seriously funny' - Alexei Sayle, …
Dog's Last Walk
(and Other Pieces)
Häftad, 2018
141 kr
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_______________'[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 …
Dog's Last Walk
(And Other Pieces)
E-bok, 2017
141 kr
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_______________ ''[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 …
