No More Mr Nice Guy by Howard Jacobson - ISBN: 9780099274636
Paperback
Sex, lies, and television: What happens when nice guys finish last?

No More Mr Nice Guy

  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    4 June 1999

Summary

‘A savage and scabrously entertaining sex comedy, the likes of which I have not encountered since Philip Roth’s masterly Sabbath’s Theater’ - Sunday Times

Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writes crap all day. It’s a life. Or it was a life. But now they’re fighting, locked in oral combat. He won’t shut up and she is putting her finger down her throat again. So there’s onl…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099274636
ISBN-10:0099274639
Author:Howard Jacobson
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:4 June 1999
Weight:192g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 17mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“A savage and scabrously entertaining sex comedy.” –Sunday Times

“A savage and scabrously entertaining sex comedy” Sunday Times “Howard Jacobson is one of the funniest writers alive…his writing pulsates with nerve and edge; it is colossal in comic precision” Daily Telegraph “Howard Jacobson is one of the funniest writers around… It’s hard to imagine a more entertaining book” Observer “A very funny, very intelligent novel… How many of Jacobson’s contemporaries have described the male condition with such wry, unsparing honesty?” Sunday Telegraph “Brilliant and funny… No More Mr Nice Guy shows invention on every page, every paragraph. Jacobson is unique” Evening Standard

About The Author

Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson has written eighteen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.

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