Synopsis
Sefton mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure - morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries - so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject.In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another's success...From the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010.
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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.
Review
"Howard Jacobson is one of the funniest writers alive... His writing pulsates with nerve and edge; it is colossal in its comic precision; at its best it simply tears you apart" * The Times * "Lucky Jim undated... Witty, observant, clever, a first-rate entertainment and something more besides" * Guardian * "Jacobson's humour is unashamedly savage and his jokes as sharp as a switch-blade... comic vitriol worthy of Evelyn Waugh" * Sunday Express *
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Coming From Behind
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Chatto & Windus/Hogarth, 1983
ISBN 10: 0701126582
ISBN 13: 9780701126582
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Coming From Behind
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ISBN 10: 0701126582
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition (PROOF). Slight discoloration at base of spine else near fine -- blank whirte wraps, in spine-sunned else fine dustjacket of finsihed book. PROOF copy of Booker-winning author's first novel. Seller Inventory # 008291
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ISBN 10: 0701126582
ISBN 13: 9780701126582
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Blue Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Mick McManus (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Jacobson's first novel stars Sefton Goldberg who is, " . . . gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. " (front flap) Blue cloth covered boards have as-new gilt text on spine only. 202 pp. Spine ends are slightly rubbed. Price-clipped DJ has light edge/shelf wear, spine sunned. Bookseller's Inventory # 160527. Seller Inventory # 000527