by HowardJacobson (Author)
A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. `Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship ... `Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream' Evening Standard 'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: 01
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04 Aug 2016
ISBN 10: 0099593289
ISBN 13: 9780099593287
Book Overview: Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life revisits Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice