Shylock is My Name - The Merchant of Venice Retold
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2016 |
| Seiten | 288 |
| Format | 13,4 x 19,7 x 1,9 cm |
| B-Format | |
| Gewicht | 210 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Hogarth Shakespeare |
| ISBN-10 | 0099593289 |
| EAN | 9780099593287 |
| Bestell-Nr | 09959328EA |
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
Rezension:
Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original. James Lasdun Guardian
