Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It by Howard Jacobson

Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It by Howard Jacobson

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Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It by Howard Jacobson

It takes a particular kind of man, writes Howard Jacobson, to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with self-dislike, I try to imagine myself as someone else, a wearer of Yarmouth shirts and fleecy sweats, of windbreakers and rugged Tyler shorts, of baseball caps with polo players where the section of the brain that concerns itself with aesthetics is supposed to be. Good men return from fighting Satan in the wilderness the stronger for their struggle, and so do I.

Jacobson brims with life in this collection of his most acclaimed columns from the Independent. From the unusual disposal of his father-in-law's ashes and the cultural wasteland of>Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the melancholy sensuality of Leonard Cohen and the desolation of Wagner's tragedies, Jacobson writes with all the thunder and joy of a man possessed. Absurdity piles upon absurdity, and glorious sentences accrete to create a uniquely human collection, at times hilarious, at others heartbreaking, and always irresistibly entertaining.
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ISBN 13 9781608197989
ISBN 10 1608197980
Title Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It
Author Howard Jacobson
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published 2012-03-06
Number of pages 352
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