Shylock is my name : The merchant of Venice retold / Howard Jacobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobson, Howard, author.

Series:

Hogarth Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shylock (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Shylock (Fictitious character).

Fathers and daughters--Fiction.

Fathers and daughters.

Jews--England--Fiction.

Jews.

Physical Description:

275 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First United States edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Hogarth, [2016]

Summary:

'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 someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship. Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative Plurabelle (aka Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Christine) is the face of her own TV series, existing in a bubble of plastic surgery and lavish parties. She shares prejudices and a barbed sense of humour with her loyal friend D'Anton, whose attempts to play Cupid involve Strulovitch's daughter - and put a pound of flesh on the line. Howard Jacobson's version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

Contains:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice.

ISBN:

9780804141321 (hardcover)

0804141320 (hardcover)

OCLC:

940341305