The Mighty Walzer (Oberon Modern Plays) - Softcover

Jacobson, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783198346 ISBN 13: 9781783198344

Publisher: Oberon Books, 2017

Synopsis

Oliver Walzer is shy, bookish, Jewish. He doesn’t know how to talk to girls. But he can slice and spin a ping pong ball better than any teenager in Manchester. Oliver channels his frustrated adolescent lust into the game...that is, until the heartbreaking Lorna Peachley and the prospect of a place at Cambridge take his eye off the ball.

About this title

About the Author:

Howard Jacobson is a British novelist and journalist. He is known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters. He is a Man Booker Prize winner.

Simon Bent is a British screenwriter and playwright, whose work includes the Joe Orton biographical play Prick Up Your Ears, the theatre adaptation of A Prayer for Owen Meany (2002) and Elling (2007).

Review:

“Poignant, moving, hilarious . . . laugh-out-loud funny . . . the sort of book that might change your life.” ―Observer (UK)

“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 (UK)

“This mature novel has the sustained exuberance and passion of his youthful writing . . . an achingly funny book . . . an amazing achievement . . . There are few novelists today who can imbue the trifles of life with such poetry.” ―Independent (UK)

“Marvellous. Jacobson has not just written the first great novel about ping-pong. He has written one of the greatest sporting novels ever.” ―Sunday Telegraph (UK)

“[Jacobson's] humour is unashamedly savage and his jokes as sharp as a switch-blade . . . comic vitriol worthy of Evelyn Waugh.” ―Express on Sunday (UK)

About this edition

• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1783198346
• ISBN 13: 9781783198344
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96