Mother's Boy : A Writer's Beginnings EPUB
by Howard Jacobson
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'One of the all-time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph'Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Simon SchamaHoward Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer. Howard Jacobson was forty when his first novel was published.
In Mother's Boy, he traces the life that brought him there.
Born into a working-class Jewish family in 1940s Manchester, he did not lack encouragement or subject matter.
Jacobson takes us from childhood and studying at Cambridge, through landing in Sydney as a maverick young professor, and on to his first marriage and the birth of his son.
Later, he begins new - and often surprising - ventures in places as disparate as London, Wolverhampton, Boscastle and Melbourne. Infused with bittersweet memories of Jacobson's parents and friends, this is the story of a writer's beginnings, and of learning to understand who you are before you can become the writer you were meant to be. 'Hilariously brilliant' David Baddiel'Howard Jacobson brilliantly transforms calamity into rip-roaring comedy' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
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- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Random House (Digital)
- Publication Date:03/03/2022
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- ISBN:9781473598188
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Random House (Digital)
- Publication Date:03/03/2022
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- ISBN:9781473598188
