Shylock is My Name : The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) Paperback / softback
by Howard Jacobson
Part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series
Paperback / softback
Description
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
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:04/08/2016
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- ISBN:9780099593287
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:04/08/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780099593287
