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''A wonderful memoir, written with great linguistic brio. Candid, shrewd and moving - a classic of its kind,'' William BoydHoward Jacobson''s funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer.It''s my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in every sense the wrong way round. In Mother''s Boy, Booker-Prize winner Howard Jacobson reveals how he became a writer. It is an exploration of belonging and not-belonging, of being an insider and outsider, both English and Jewish.Born to a working-class family in 1940s Manchester, the great-grandson of Lithuanian and Russian immigrants, Jacobson was raised by his mother, grandmother and aunt Joyce. His father was a regimental tailor, as well as an upholsterer, a market-stall holder, a taxi driver, a balloonist, and a magician.Grappling always with his family''s history and his Jewish identity, Jacobson takes us from the growing pains of childhood to studying at Cambridge under F.R. Leavis, and landing in Sydney as a maverick young professor on campus, through to his first marriage, the birth of his son and beyond.Full of Jacobson''s trademark humour and infused with bittersweet memories of his parents, this is the story of a writer''s beginnings.''Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious of course - but don''t let the self-ribbing fool you; this is deep and poignant,'' Simon Schama
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| Author | Howard Jacobson |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| ISBN-13 | 9781787333802 |
| Item Height | 3 |
| Item Length | 14.5 |
| Item Width | 22.3 |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
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