Redback

Howard Jacobson

Redback
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 June 1999
Pages
368
ISBN
9780099277484

Redback

Howard Jacobson

‘The most dangerously funny writer in the English language’ - Sunday Times

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…

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