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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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Shylock Is My name, Howard Jacobson
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- 2016
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- Title
- Shylock Is My name
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Howard Jacobson
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0099593289
- ISBN13
- 9780099593287
- Series
- Hogarth Shakespeare
- Tags
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, English Literature, Jews, Jewish Literature, William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
- First published
- 2016
- Original title
- Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold
- Rating
- 3.1 out of 5
- 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