Description: The Finkler Question - Paperback By Jacobson, Howard 2010 - VERY GOOD! Pictured Wear Of Cover and Pages. The Spine Is Clear Taped & Several Pages With Tears. No Writing On Pages. *Book Overview "He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one ..." Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment. It's a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you had less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends' losses. And it's that very evening, at exactly 11:30pm, as Treslove hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country as he walks home, that he is attacked. After this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. The Finkler Question is a scorching story of exclusion and belonging, justice and love, aging, wisdom and humanity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.
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Signed: No
Custom Bundle: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
MPN: Does not apply
Original Language: English
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Brand: Unbranded
Type: Novel
Illustrator: David Mann
Era: 2010s
Personalized: No
Features: Winner Of The 2010 Man Booker Prize
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Finkler Question : a Novel
Item Length: 8.2in.
Item Height: 0.8in.
Item Width: 5.5in.
Author: Howard Jacobson
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Literary, Jewish
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication Year: 2010
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
