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Shylock is my name

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Winner of the Booker Prize 'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on SundayAS SEEN ON BBC IMAGINE`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. Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative Plurabelle (aka Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Christine) is the face of her own TV series, existing in a bubble of plastic surgery and lavish parties.

She shares prejudices and a barbed sense of humour with her loyal friend D'Anton, whose attempts to play Cupid involve Strulovitch's daughter - and put a pound of flesh on the line.

Howard Jacobson's version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world. 'Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision.

He writes like a dream' Evening Standard

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Hogarth
1781090289 / 9781781090282
Hardback
823.92
04/02/2016
United Kingdom
English
General
277 pages
23 cm
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"William Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice retold"--Back cover.