The Dog's Last Walk: (and Other Pieces)

ISBN-13: 9781408845127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Howard Jacobson

Opis

'The author's prose is always a delight . a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' Times Literary Supplement

Recenzje

Jacobson is one of the great sentence-builders of our time. I feel I have to raise my game, even just to praise ... In short, he is one of the great guardians of language and culture - all of it. Long may he flourish Nicholas Lezard Guardian

O autorze

Jacobson, Howard
An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), the highly acclaimed The Act of Love, the 2010 Man Booker Prize-winning, The Finkler Question and, most recently, Zoo Time. Howard Jacobson lives in Soho, London.