Redback by Howard Jacobson
Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Karl Leon Forelock is a product of the northern English town of Partington (the wettest spot in Europe) and a graduate with a double starred first in the Moral Decencies from Malapert college, Cambridge.
An outrageously gifted funny man * Guardian *
It makes one laugh.. and that is a gift above rubies * Financial Times *
Redback does for Australia what Clive James has done for England... Literate, outrageously and consistently very funny * Time Out *
The most beguiling innovation in British letters in years. Rude, stylish, conversational, pithy, anecdotal, ruminative, fantastical, self-deprecating, allusive -- John Walsh
Dazzlingly, brilliantly clever; and side-splittingly, knee-slappingly funny * Washington Post *
It makes one laugh.. and that is a gift above rubies * Financial Times *
Redback does for Australia what Clive James has done for England... Literate, outrageously and consistently very funny * Time Out *
The most beguiling innovation in British letters in years. Rude, stylish, conversational, pithy, anecdotal, ruminative, fantastical, self-deprecating, allusive -- John Walsh
Dazzlingly, brilliantly clever; and side-splittingly, knee-slappingly funny * Washington Post *
Howard Jacobson has written eighteen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099277484 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099277484 |
| Title | Redback |
| Author | Howard Jacobson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1999-05-06 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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