Redback

Jacobsen, Howard

ISBN 10: 0552992526 / ISBN 13: 9780552992527

Published by Corgi, 1988

About this Item

Taschenbuch 368 S. guter altersbedingter Zustand, ohne Namenseintragung Zustand: 3, gebraucht - gut, Taschenbuch Corgi , 1988 368 S. , Redback, Jacobsen, Howard.

Seller Inventory # BU121469

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Redback
• Publisher: Corgi
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0552992526
• ISBN 13: 9780552992527
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: gebraucht - gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Englischsprachiges

About this title

Synopsis

By the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

Karl Leon Forelock is a product of the northern English town of Partington (the wettest spot in Europe) and a graduate with a double starred first in the Moral Decencies from Malapert college, Cambridge. Sent to Sydney on a CIA bursary on a mission to teach the Australians how to live, Leon quickly discovers that there are some natives who believe that they have an education to pass on in return. But it is at the hands of the women in Australia that Leon receives his most painful, and on occasions his most pleasurable, lessons.

Meanwhile, in a foul, dilapidated bush privy, way up in the Bogong high plains, the Redback sucks her teeth and waits her turn...

About the Author

Howard Jacobson has written fifteen novels and five 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 and was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for his most recent novel, J.