- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Books (July 12 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0099288281
- ISBN-13: 978-0099288282
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 200 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,257,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Product Description
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 shoes, fur coat and antagonism to all things green and growing as he stomps the wild Atlantic cliffs on long, morbid walks, tampering with the truth, tangling with the imperious Camilla — and telling a riotous tale.
About the Author
Howard Jacobson is the author of four works of nonfiction and several novels, including The Finkler Question, which won the Man Booker Prize; The Mighty Walzer, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for comic writing; and Who's Sorry Now?, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize. He has a weekly column for The Independent and regularly reviews and writes for The Guardian, The Times, and The Evening Standard. Jacobson has also done several specials for British television. He lives in London.
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The most interesting book about sex and it's related respect, Nov 24 1998
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A man who lives under the shadow of Thomas Hardy, a Jewish youth, co-living with his wife and another girl--Camila, produces many joking materials......
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