Description
| Product ID: | 9781529115673 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Mother's Boy |
| Subtitle: | A Writer's Beginnings |
| Authors: | Author: Howard Jacobson |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Memoirs, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Local and family history, nostalgia, Memoirs, Jewish studies, Local interest, family history & nostalgia, Lancashire |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'One of the all-time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph'Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Simon SchamaHoward 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 are before you can become the writer you were meant to be. 'Hilariously brilliant' David Baddiel'Howard Jacobson brilliantly transforms calamity into rip-roaring comedy' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday ''One of the all-time great memoirs'' Daily Telegraph |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-16 |