A01=Howard Jacobson
Author_Howard Jacobson
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the mighty waltzer
Product details
- ISBN 9780099288282
- Weight: 191g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 1999
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century - and by Barney as a 'prurient little Victorian ratbag'.
This curious propulsion drives him out of Finchley, and out of the life he shares with Sharon and her 'rampant marvellings', to Cornwall. There he offends serious ramblers with his slip-on snakeskin shoes, fur coat and antagonism to all things green and growing as he stomps the wild Atlantic cliffs on long, morbid walks, tampering with the truth, tangling with the imperious Camilla - and telling a riotous tale.
By the winner of the Man Booker Prize and author of The Finkler Question.
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.
