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Shylock is My Name : The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

Author: Howard Jacobson
SKU: 9780099593287

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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 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’The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe’ Mail on Sunday

  • Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback softback 288 pages

ISBN : 9780099593287

Published : 4 Aug 2016

Author : Howard Jacobson

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : Vintage Publishing

Size : 192 x 118 x 19 (mm)

Weight : 202g

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