Zoo Time (Hardback)
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Zoo Time (Hardback)

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Hardback 384 Pages
Published: 30/08/2012

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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, beautiful but contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. Their provocative presence fills Guy's head with stories so wild he can't concentrate to write them. Not that anyone reads anymore, anyway. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, however, is writing her own novel. Guy dreads the consequences... Our funniest writer at his brilliant best, Zoo Time is a novel about love - love of women, love of literature, love of laughter.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408828687
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 706 g
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 35 mm

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“Persevere”

This book sounded promising and Howard Jacobson has good previous form. However, I found it difficult to get into Zoo Time, the writing is dense, particularly at the start. The concept of writing about a writer who is... More

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“Not your run of the mill book”

This is my first read of Howard Jacobsons - I have read a lot about 'The Finkler Question' but have not got around to reading it yet.

I found the book a witty read - an entirely differnt genre to the usual... More

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“The comic novel lives”

The instructions say 'rate this book'. This is tricky. Guy Ableman, Howard Jacobson's alter ego even if the former is from Wilmslow and the latter from Manchester, wouldn't approve. The more stars... More

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