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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.
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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).
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“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)
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- PublisherOberon Books
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1783198346
- ISBN 13 9781783198344
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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