Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
A wonderful memoir, written with great linguistic brio. Candid,
shrewd and moving - a classic of its kind.
*William Boyd*
Howard Jacobson has always been hilariously brilliant at writing
fictional versions of his life. He can, it turns out, also tell the
real story with all that brilliance and hilarity, with the added
gain for the reader of finding out what - and who - made him that
writer.
*David Baddiel*
Side-splittingly funny and serious, too, Howard Jacobson has
written one of the all-time great memoirs.
*Daily Telegraph*
Mother's Boy is a synthesis of his life's work...as well as an
original story... it is every bit as funny.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious of course - but don't let
the self-ribbing fool you; this is deep and poignant.
*Simon Schama*
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