Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

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Product ID:	9780099593287
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Series:	Hogarth Shakespeare
Title:	Shylock is My Name
Subtitle:	The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Authors:	Author: Howard Jacobson
Page Count:	288
Subjects:	Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Description:	Select Guide Rating A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. He writes like a dream’ Evening Standard'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday 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
Imprint Name:	Vintage
Publisher Name:	Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2016-08-04

Weight	206 g
Dimensions	192 × 118 × 19 mm