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Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
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Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

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A re-envisaging of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life.

‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’

With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship …

 ‘Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream’ Evening Standard

‘The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe’ Mail on Sunday

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 August 2016
Pages
288
ISBN
9780099593287

A re-envisaging of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life.

‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’

With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship …

 ‘Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream’ Evening Standard

‘The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe’ Mail on Sunday

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 August 2016
Pages
288
ISBN
9780099593287