Howard Jacobson Libros Populares
Howard Jacobson Biografía y Hechos
Howard Jacobson (Mánchester, 25 de agosto de 1942) es un escritor británico de ascendencia judía, graduado por la Universidad de Cambridge. Fue galardonado con el Premio Booker de 2010 por su obra La extraordinaria naturaleza de Sam Finkler. Carrera El británico Howard Jacobson ha novelado sobre la idiosincrasia y la identidad judía. Parodió el hecho describiéndose a sí mismo, como "una Jane Austen judía". Además de escribir novelas y ensayos, Jacobson escribe para televisión, habiéndose hecho una figura popular con el primer episodio de una serie sobre la Biblia. Asimismo, promueve performances públicas, como la reciente Palhaços en Rebelión, una protesta arty con mujeres y hombres desnudos junto al muro que separa Cisjordania de Israel.[1] Obra Narrativa Coming From Behind, Chatto & Windus, 1983 Peeping Tom, Chatto & Windus, 1984 Redback, Bantam, 1986 The Very Model of a Man, Viking, 1992 No More Mister Nice Guy, Cape, 1998 The Mighty Walzer, Cape, 1999 Who's Sorry Now, Cape, 2002 The Making of Henry, Cape, 2004 Kalooki Nights, Cape, 2006 / Cargo, 2008 The Act of Love, Cape, 2008 The Finkler Question, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010 (Prémio Man Booker) Zoo Time, Bloomsbury, 2012 J, Bloomsbury, 2014 (nomeado para o Prémio Man Booker) Ensayo Shakespeare's Magnanimity: Four Tragic Heroes, Their Friends and Families (coautor com Wilbur Sanders), Chatto & Windus, 1978 In the Land of Oz, Hamish Hamilton, 1987 Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews, Viking, 1993 Seriously Funny: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime, Viking, 1997 Referencias. Descubre los libros populares de Howard Jacobson. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Howard Jacobson
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John Bull's Other Island
George Bernard ShawShaw’s story is rife with such ‘beyond opinions’, as an AngloIrish Protestant, a Dubliner in London, and a socialist living in the aftermath of the industrial revolution. In one se...
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Democracy
Henry AdamsAn instant bestseller when first published in 1880, Democracy is the quintessential American political novel. At its heart is Madeleine Lee, a young widow who comes to Washington, ...
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Kaddish.com
Nathan EnglanderLarry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it's his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for e...
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Tom Dick And Debbie Harry
Jessica AdamsWhen Richard, a divorced but desirable vet from Tasmania, proposes to Sarah, an English Rose, she decides to accept and start a whole new life with him down under. The only problem...
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Dunbar
Edward St AubynFrom the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, now a major Sky Atlantic television series starring Benedict CumberbatchHenry Dunbar, the once allpowerful head of a global media cor...
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The Godfather: The Lost Years
Mark WinegardnerBrought to you by Penguin.'The bloody victory of the Corleone Family was not complete,' begins the final chapter of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, 'until a year of delicate manoeuvrin...
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Another Weird Year 4
Huw DaviesIn timehonoured fashion, Another Weird Year 4 brings you the stories that no lover of bizarre, inexplicable and downright hilarious news items can afford to miss, all handily group...
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The Boat to Redemption
Su Tong & Howard GoldblattDisgraced Secretary Ku has been banished from the Party it has been officially proved he does not have a fishshaped birthmark on his bottom and is therefore not the son of a revol...
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The Obscure Logic of the Heart
Priya BasilAn epic Romeo and Juliet for the 21st centuryIn a bustling London café, Anil, now a famous architect, sits waiting for Lina. It is years since he last laid eyes on her, the love of...
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The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith & Stephen CooteWhen Dr Primrose loses his fortune in a disastrous investment, his idyllic life in the country is shattered and he is forced to move with his wife and six children to an impoverish...
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Come to the Edge
Joanna KavennaTake one narrator in retreat from suburban life, a shambolic draughty farmhouse in a scenic valley, two psychotic goats, one banker, a villagefull of empty second homes and scores ...
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A Whistling Woman
A S ByattIt is 1968 and Frederica Potter is surprised to find herself embarking on a new career in television. While she endeavours to navigate this fastpaced and occasionally bewildering i...
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New Boy
Tracy Chevalier‘A compact and intense read full of twists, turns and intrigue’ Daily ExpressThe bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway returns with a tale of jealous...
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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Joshua FerrisWinner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2014 and Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 'The Catch22 of dentistry' Stephen KingJoshua Ferris's dazzling new novel To Rise Again at a De...
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Grotesque
Natsuo KirinoTwo prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo.Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them....
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The Childhood of Jesus
J.M. CoetzeeFrom the double Booker Prizewinning author of Disgrace, 'a moving story of lost childhood' (Sunday Telegraph).After crossing oceans, a man and a boy both strangers to each other ...
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The House On Hope Street
Danielle SteelLife was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm happy home near San Francisco, in a house on...
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Gary Howard Jacobson v. State Alaska
Supreme Court of AlaskaGary Jacobson was charged with the crime of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. After trial by jury in the district court, Jacobson was foun...
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After Many a Summer
Aldous HuxleyJo Stoyte is afraid of death. But Stoyte is also a millionaire, and so he pours his riches into scientific research, desperate to find the secret of immortality. This ruthless ques...
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Je t'aime à la Folie
Michael WrightHow do you find the woman of your dreams when you're nearly forty, living in the middle of nowhere and spectacularly ungifted in the art of seduction?Three years into his solo adve...
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The Fourth Angel
Robin HunterA thoughtful and civilised man shouldn't have to make this choice.Until the day his wife and children are gunned down by terrorists, Simon Quarry knows what kind of man he is.When ...
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Survivor
Harry Borden & Howard Jacobson'A masterpiece and deeply moving' Alain de Botton'A wonderful piece of work' Lynn Barber"...something really to behold, a substantial project of some real depth and authority. By...
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A Funny Thing About Love
The Estate of Rebecca FarnworthThe funny thing about love is that just when you think you've got it sorted, it turns round and bites you on the behind.Which is exactly what's happened to Carmen Miller.Her ex hus...
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Hothouse Flower
Margot BerwinLila Nova never imagined her desires could prove so dangerous. And she never dreamed of the exotic turn her life is about to take.Stumbling across a steamy New York laundromat over...
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Hell And Back
Tim ParksIn Hell and Back, Tim Parks reminds us just how exciting the essay form can be turning his attention to classic authors like Dante, Borges and Leopardi, as well as various contemp...
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Tell-All
Chuck Palahniuk'Every word he's written about me is a lie including "and" and "the"...'For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine 'Miss Kathie' Kenton, a star of the w...
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The Schooldays of Jesus
J.M. CoetzeeFrom the double Booker Prizewinning author of Disgrace, an astonishing novel of new beginnings and the troubles of youth.'Brilliant... Tenaciously absorbing' Daily TelegraphDavid i...
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All the Little Live Things
Wallace Stegner'Timely and timeless ... Will hold any reader to its last haunting page' Chicago TribuneThe early life of Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner's National Book Awardw...
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Husbands and Lies
Susy McPheeThere are some people you'd do anything for...For Fran that list would include her husband, Max, her daughter, and her best friend, Alison. Only Alison is now desperately ill and s...
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Babette's Feast and Other Stories
Isak DinesenThese five rich, witty and magical stories include one of Dinesen's most well known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French c...
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Entry into Jerusalem
Stanley MiddletonJohn Worth is an artist not a Bohemian, but a stubborn and selfdisciplined man. Friends and colleagues try to influence his work his mistress wants him to introduce more politica...
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Time For Bed
David BaddielThe Sunday Times bestselling novel from comic genius David BaddielGabriel Jacoby can't get to sleep. In fact, he can't get anywhere at all, either in his Triumph Dolomite or his li...
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When I Was Mortal
Javier MaríasIn the dark narratives that make up When I Was Mortal by Javier Marías, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, a dapper Paris doctor dispe...
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On Grief And Reason
Joseph BrodskyIn this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he expl...
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Essential Novelists - D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence & August NemoWelcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most ...
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Labels and Other Stories
Louis de BernièresTransporting us to all corners of the globe, the tales in Louis de Bernières’ worldly and entertaining collection Labels and Other Stories feature a cast of unlikely and unforgetta...
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Big Sky
Gareth CreerBig Sky is narrated by a mute called Jimmy Mack. A good man who has to do bad things, he has spent his childhood in and out of children's homes. A kind of benign Fagin figure, he...
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The Fatal Dance
Berndt SellheimA compulsive work of fiction from an outstanding Australian writer.Redmond Campbell's luck has just taken a turn for the worse. His dog's dead, his wife, Bea, has landed in prison,...
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Frieda And Min
Pamela JoosteWhen Frieda first met Min, with her golden hair and ivory bones, what struck her most was that Min was wearing a pair of African sandals, the sort made out of old car tyres. She wa...
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Primary Colors
Random HouseThe political BONFIRE OF VANITIES: a novel based on the Clinton campaign which has become the most controversial book for years. 'The greatest betrayal of an American leader si...
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The Pursuit
Peter SmalleySpring 1792.Captain James Rennie is anxious to be active again after a year on the beach. And this time he longs for regular service with the Fleet as opposed to the extraordinaril...
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The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams
Wayne JohnstonWayne Johnston is a brilliant and accomplished writer' Annie ProulxShortlisted for two major literary awards in Canada, Wayne Johnston's epic novel of his native Newfoundland has b...
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The Terrible Privacy Of Maxwell Sim
Jonathan CoeThe Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is Jonathan Coe's latest heartbreaking and hilarious novelMaxwell Sim could be any of us. He could be you.He's about to have a midlife crisis (t...
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Great Southern Land
Frank WelshAustralia is a dynamic multicultural society, viewed by many as the world's most desirable place to live. Here Frank Welsh traces Australia's intriguing and varied history to exami...
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The Magic Barrel
Bernard MalamudA matchmaker finds love for a wouldbe rabbi; a shopkeeper dies because he cannot afford a doctor; a little girl steals candy; an angel visits a grieving tailor. Through Malamud'...
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Howard Jacobson v. New York Racing Association
Supreme Court of New York[49 A.D.2d 634 Page 634] In an action against the New York Racing Association, Inc. to recover damages for its failure to allot stall space, plaintiff appeals from a judgment of th...
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A Way Through The Mountains
Elizabeth McGregorSometimes the only way forward is to go back.Ten years have passed since David Mortimer last saw Anna Russell. Their love affair abruptly ended when Anna disappeared. Drifting thro...
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The Death of Jesus
J.M. CoetzeeThe luminous new novel from 'one of the best writers of our time', double Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee.'Full of truth, tearfully moving to read... Brilliant' Evening StandardS...
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A Desert In Bohemia
Jill Paton WalshIt is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the aftermath of violence and confusion, a terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, emerges from the forest to take refuge in an ...
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Making Mischief
LIZ YOUNG'My God! What if they'd seen you? Wouldn't you have absolutely died?' I would, but I wasn't going to admit it. 'I wish they had!' When she stumbles on shenanigans involving Guy and...
