Coming From Behind

Howard Jacobson

Coming From Behind
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 April 2003
Pages
256
ISBN
9780099452034

Coming From Behind

Howard Jacobson

‘A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel…do read it’ - Malcolm Bradbury

;In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question.;;‘A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel…do read it’ Malcolm Bradbury;;Sefton Goldberg- mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure - morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries - so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject. ;;In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another’s success…

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