Shylock is My Name - The Merchant of Venice Retold

Informationen zum Autor Howard Jacobson Klappentext Winner of the Booker Prize 'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday '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 need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle! he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship ... 'Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream' Evening Standard Zusammenfassung A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. He writes like a dream’ Evening Standard'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday

Product details

• Authors: Howard Jacobson
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780099593287
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959328-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Hogarth Shakespeare; Hogarth Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Humorous / General, DRAMA / Shakespeare, Humour, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)