FINKLER QUESTION, A Novel

JACOBSON, HOWARD

ISBN 10: 1608196119 / ISBN 13: 9781608196111

Published by Bloomsbury USA, NY, 2010

About this Item

VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid,bright.; gold & blue cover titles on white paper covers showing hat & brown coat on wall rack.back cover shows 1x1" photo of author & biog. FRONT COVER GOLD CIRCLE "Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize." ; 320 pages; The Finkler Question is a funny, furious, unflinching novel of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and the wisdom and humanity of maturity.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FINKLER QUESTION, A Novel
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, NY
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608196119
• ISBN 13: 9781608196111
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Illustrated by Corbis/DAVID MANN cover photo
• Edition: first edition,2p; 3579108642pt line.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past.

About the Author

An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and, most recently, the highly acclaimed The Act of Love. Howard Jacobson lives in London.