The Making of Henry
by By Jacobson, Howard
Category: Fiction , Literary

Man Booker Prize–Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTIONSwathed in his kimono, drinking tea from his samovar, Henry Nagle is temperamentally   opposed to life in the 21st century.  Preferring not to contemplate the great intellectual   and worldly success of his best boyhood friend, he argues constantly with his father,   an upholsterer turned fire-eater–and now dead for many years. When he goes out at   all, Henry goes after other men’s wives.   But when he mysteriously inherits a sumptuous   apartment, Henry’s life changes, bringing on a slick descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson,   an excitable red setter, and a wise-cracking waitress with a taste for danger. All   of them demand his attention, even his love, a word which barely exists in Henry’s   magisterial vocabulary, never mind his heart. From one of England’s most highly   regarded writers, The Making of Henry is a ravishing novel, at once wise, tender   and mordantly funny.