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Mother's Boy

A Writer's Beginnings

Pocket
Engelsk
Mother's Boy
Mother's Boy
  • Forfatter: Howard Jacobson
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 288
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9781529115673
  • Utgivelsesår: 2023
  • Bidragsyter: Jacobson, Howard
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''One of the all-time great memoirs'' Daily Telegraph
''Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving'' William Boyd
''Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious'' Simon Schama


Howard Jacobson''s funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer.

Howard Jacobson was forty when his first novel was published. In Mother''s Boy, he traces the life that brought him there. Born into a working-class Jewish family in 1940s Manchester, he did not lack encouragement or subject matter. Jacobson takes us from childhood and studying at Cambridge, through landing in Sydney as a maverick young professor, and on to his first marriage and the birth of his son. Later, he begins new - and often surprising - ventures in places as disparate as London, Wolverhampton, Boscastle and Melbourne.

Infused with bittersweet memories of Jacobson''s parents and friends, this is the story of a writer''s beginnings, and of learning to understand who you ar