The Mighty Walzer
$47.34
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2000
Summary
Poignant, moving, hilarious…laugh-out-loud funny…the sort of book that might change your life’ - Observer
From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not so adept, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis Team and stalwart of the Kardomah coffee bar, his game improves.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099274728 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099274728 |
| Author: | Howard Jacobson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2000 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
“The most dangerously funny writer in the English language.” -Sunday Times
Jacobson is a great storyteller: phrases, anecdotes and atmosphere roll off the page with the ease and sublime, scary grace of drunken eels…he is unsurpassable * The Times *
This mature novel has the sustained exuberance and passion of his youthful writing…an achingly funny book…an amazing acheivement… There are few novelists today who can imbue the trifles of life with such poetry * Independent *
Marvellous. Jacobson has not just written the first great novel about ping-pong. He has written one of the greatest sporting novels ever…a towering work of authority * Sunday Telegraph *
Jacobson’s humour is unashamedly savage and his jokes as sharp as a switch-blade…comic vitriol worthy of Evelyn Waugh * Sunday Express *
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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