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