The Mighty Walzer - Softcover

Jacobson, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608196852 ISBN 13: 9781608196852

Verlag: BLOOMSBURY, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural--at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis team, his game improves. And while the Akiva boys teach him everything he needs to know about ping-pong, his father, Joel Walzer, teaches him everything there is to know about "swag." Unabashedly autobiographical, this is an hilarious and heartbreaking story of one man's coming of age in 1950's Manchester.

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Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, England. He is an award-winning writer and broadcaster whose novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), and, most recently, The Finkler Question, winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Jacobson lives in London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BLOOMSBURY
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1608196852
• ISBN 13: 9781608196852
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 387
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