Whatever it is, I don't like it
Subtitle: the best of Howard Jacobson
By: by Howard Jacobson
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781608197989
Description: Jacobson brims with life in this collection of his most acclaimed columns from the Independent. From the unusual disposal of his father-in-law's ashes and the cultural wasteland of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the melancholy sensuality of Leonard Cohen and the desolation of Wagner's tragedies, Jacobson writes with all the thunder and joy of a man possessed. Absurdity piles upon absurdity, and glorious sentences accrete to create a uniquely human collection, at times hilarious, at others heartbreaking, and always irresistibly entertaining.
Notes: Essays.