Description
This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson's novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction. Focusing on the themes of comedy, masculinity and Jewishness, the book emphasises the richness and diversity of Jacobson's work. Often described by others as 'the English Philip Roth' and by himself as 'the Jewish Jane Austen', Jacobson emerges here as a complex and often contradictory figure: a fearless novelist; a combative public intellectual; a polemical journalist; an unapologetic elitist and an irreverent outsider; an exuberant iconoclast and a sombre satirist. Never afraid of controversy, Jacobson tends to polarise readers; but love him or hate him, he is difficult to ignore. This book gives him the thorough consideration and the balanced evaluation that he deserves.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
About the Author
David Brauner is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Reading
Book Information
ISBN 9781526101495
Author David Brauner
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Weight(grams) 431g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 14mm
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