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Shylock is My Name

The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

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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 dreamEvening Standard

'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday

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Authors:
Jacobson, Howard
Year Published:
2016
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780099593287
Number of Pages:
288
Place of Publication:
London
Publication Date:
04/08/2016
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Series:
Hogarth Shakespeare
Language:
English
SKU:
9780099593287

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