The Making of Henry
$33.37
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2005
Summary
A riotous comedy about the ghosts of the past and the surprises of the present, from the master of farce and winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010.
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 of Henry’s past are prepared to dis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099472162 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099472163 |
| Author: | Howard Jacobson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2005 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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“Our funniest living writer” Alison Pearson “One of the country’s very best writers. The British Philip Roth” – Jonathan Freedland “Jacobson’s writing is as luscious and funny as ever… You’re never far from comic brilliance” Daily Telegraph “This is a beautifully rounded portrait of a man gazing into the prism of the past… And love, no less, is the key, exquisitely articulated and celebrated” Sunday Telegraph “Terrific… Jacobson is at the top of his form” Evening Standard
About The Author
Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson has written eighteen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
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