- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape; First edition edition (3 Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224073524
- ISBN-13: 978-0224073523
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,086,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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William Leith, Evening Standard
...terrific novel, full of pert observations and salty insights into the ageing process - not just Henry's, but the world's
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"Jacobson is among the most exhilarating of intelligent contemporary novelists."
--"The Guardian
"Painful, funny and highly readable. Jacobson is at the top of his verbal form here"
--"The Evening Standard
"Page for page and sentence for sentence, it confirms Jacobson as, by some distance, the cleverest, funniest, sharpest writer we have"
--"The Sunday Telegraph
"A rich, unrepentantly funny novel, full of vim and vigour and bolshie cleverness. Its prose pulsates with fresh images"
--"The Observer
--"The Guardian
"Painful, funny and highly readable. Jacobson is at the top of his verbal form here"
--"The Evening Standard
"Page for page and sentence for sentence, it confirms Jacobson as, by some distance, the cleverest, funniest, sharpest writer we have"
--"The Sunday Telegraph
"A rich, unrepentantly funny novel, full of vim and vigour and bolshie cleverness. Its prose pulsates with fresh images"
--"The Observer
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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If you like books with a plot, this isn't for you. What Jacobson does is observation, rich human comedy, a rather twisted take on relationships, and a keen sense of the convoluted politics of family. He's a mordant, original writer whose darker edge may not be to everyone's taste. He creates great characters, and in some ways resembles Philip Roth. All in all this isn't his best book (Who's Sorry Now? is better, for instance), but it's very well written and shows a real thoughtfulness - quite lightly worn - about what it is to be a man. That may sound pretentious; if it does, Jacobson probably isn't for you.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read several of Howard Jacobson's books in the past and really enjoyed his humour and language.
I picked this book up several times to try to read it - a page turner it is not.
I had no real empathy for the main character, Henry Nagel, and never really warmed to him. Not that he was bad or evil just unsympathetic. Every few fages I would get fed up with his self-pity and put it down... I struggled with it.
Perhaps I'm not old enough yet to feel empathy with a 60 year-old underachiever. I rarely grinned, never mind laugh out loud as I have with his other books.
As for the plot! Coincidences pepper the plot in an attempt to increase Henry's comic confusion - does not help the reader. Moira falling for him... I think HJ is having a bit of wish fulfilment here.
Sorry HJ, maybe I'll get the joke later!
I picked this book up several times to try to read it - a page turner it is not.
I had no real empathy for the main character, Henry Nagel, and never really warmed to him. Not that he was bad or evil just unsympathetic. Every few fages I would get fed up with his self-pity and put it down... I struggled with it.
Perhaps I'm not old enough yet to feel empathy with a 60 year-old underachiever. I rarely grinned, never mind laugh out loud as I have with his other books.
As for the plot! Coincidences pepper the plot in an attempt to increase Henry's comic confusion - does not help the reader. Moira falling for him... I think HJ is having a bit of wish fulfilment here.
Sorry HJ, maybe I'll get the joke later!
Format:Paperback
just to register that i found this a wonderful book. with laugh-out-loud and great poignancy, and all in between, between two covers. brilliantly, engagingly, incisively, insightfully, honestly, searingly, wittily, humourously, entertainingly written, jacobson starts with a 60 year old man and tells his ongoing tale interspersed with unpacking the russian dolls of a full life contained within the exterior of that old man you just saw walking by.
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