Summary
‘The funniest book about sex ever written’ - Time Out
Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life- sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century - and by Barney as a ‘prurient little Victorian ratbag’.
This curious propulsion drives him out of Finchley, and out of the life he shares with Sharon and her ‘rampant marvellings’, to Cornwall. There he offends serious ramblers with his slip-on snakeskin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099288282 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099288281 |
| Author: | Howard Jacobson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 4 June 1999 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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Brilliantly funny and inventive-An astonishing display of irreverent wit, marvellous situational set-pieces and biting one-liners
Brilliantly funny and inventive-An astonishing display of irreverent wit, marvellous situational set-pieces and biting one-liners * Guardian *Brilliant and original * Evening Standard *Howard Jacobson comes from behind the “tropic swamps of the imagination” to drag admirers into them again, kicking and screaming and laughing our heads off * The Times *
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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