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Howard Jacobson (1) (1942–)

Autor/a de El Cas únic de Sam Finkler

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24+ obres 5,867 Membres 314 Ressenyes 7 preferits

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Howard Jacobson was born on August 25, 1942 in Manchester, England. He is a Man Booker Prize-winning British author and journalist. He studied English at Downing College, Cambridge under F. R. Leavis. He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to England to teach at mostra'n més Selwyn College, Cambridge. His later teaching posts included a period at Wolverhampton Polytechnic from 1974 to 1980. His time at Wolverhampton was to form the basis of his first novel, Coming from Behind, a campus comedy about a failing polytechnic that plans to merge facilities with a local football club. He also wrote a travel book in 1987, titled In the Land of Oz, which was researched during his time as a visiting academic in Sydney. His fiction, particularly in the six novels he has published since 1998, is characterised chiefly by a discursive and humorous style. His 1999 novel The Mighty Walzer, about a teenage table tennis champion, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing. In October 2010 Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question, which was the first comic novel to win the prize since Kingsley Amis's The Old Devils in 1986. In 2013 he made The New York Times Best Seller List with his title Whole Rethinking the Science of Nutrition which he co-authored with T. Colin Campbell. He will be at the Oz, New Zealand festival of literature and arts program in 2015 in London. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

Obres de Howard Jacobson

El Cas únic de Sam Finkler (2010) 2,669 exemplars
J (2014) 540 exemplars
Shylock Is My Name (2016) 499 exemplars
Kalooki Nights (1999) 406 exemplars
The Mighty Walzer (2000) 222 exemplars
Zoo Time (2012) 182 exemplars
The Act of Love (2008) 140 exemplars
The Making of Henry (2004) 132 exemplars
Coming from Behind (1983) 131 exemplars
In the Land of Oz (1987) 119 exemplars
Peeping Tom (1984) 105 exemplars
Live a Little: A Novel (2019) 103 exemplars
Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It (2011) 88 exemplars
No More Mr. Nice Guy (1999) 87 exemplars

Obres associades

Granta 70: Australia - The New New World (2000) — Col·laborador — 166 exemplars
Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame (2012) — Col·laborador — 54 exemplars

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2014 Booker Prize longlist: J a Booker Prize (octubre 2014)

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Un tip de judaisme crític, intel·ligent i molt ben escrit. M'ha cansant però. Massa del mateix.Molt ben estructurat però tanmateix excessiu com a tema principal, almenys per les meus gustos literaris. Això no treu que es tracta d'un bon llibre per a aquell que aquest tema el pugui interessar.
 
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Obres
24
També de
2
Membres
5,867
Popularitat
#4,207
Valoració
3.1
Ressenyes
314
ISBN
331
Llengües
16
Preferit
7

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