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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Mother’s Boy
Author: JACOBSON HOWARD
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 13/06/2023
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9781529115673
Pages: 288
Edition: 01