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Shylock Is My Name
(2016)The Merchant of Venice Retold
(The second book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series)
A novel by Howard Jacobson
A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life.
Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?
With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshires Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. Its the beginning of a remarkable friendship ...
Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream Evening Standard
'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday
Genre: Literary Fiction
Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?
With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshires Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. Its the beginning of a remarkable friendship ...
Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream Evening Standard
'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday
Genre: Literary Fiction
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September 2016 : UK Hardback
Title: Shylock Is My Name
Author(s): Howard Jacobson
ISBN: 1-4448-2962-9 / 978-1-4448-2962-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: Ulverscroft Ltd
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Title: Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel
Author(s): Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Random House Audio
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February 2016 : Australia Audio edition

Title: Shylock Is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Author(s): Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
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February 2016 : UK Audio edition

Title: Shylock Is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Author(s): Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Availability: Amazon UK
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February 2016 : Canada Kindle edition

Title: Shylock Is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Author(s): Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Knopf Canada
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February 2016 : USA Kindle edition

Title: Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Author(s): Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Hogarth
Availability: Amazon
February 2016 : Australia, UK Kindle edition