The Making of Henry
ISBN-13:
9781400078615
ISBN-10:
140007861X
Author:
Howard Jacobson
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
Anchor
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781400078615
ISBN-10:
140007861X
Author:
Howard Jacobson
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
Anchor
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
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The Making of Henry (ISBN-13: 9781400078615 and ISBN-10: 140007861X), written by authors
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Man Booker Prize–Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTION
Swathed in his kimono, drinking tea from his samovar, Henry Nagle is temperamentally opposed to life in the 21st century. Preferring not to contemplate the great intellectual and worldly success of his best boyhood friend, he argues constantly with his father, an upholsterer turned fire-eater–and now dead for many years. When he goes out at all, Henry goes after other men’s wives.
But when he mysteriously inherits a sumptuous apartment, Henry’s life changes, bringing on a slick descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson, an excitable red setter, and a wise-cracking waitress with a taste for danger. All of them demand his attention, even his love, a word which barely exists in Henry’s magisterial vocabulary, never mind his heart.
From one of England’s most highly regarded writers, The Making of Henryis a ravishing novel, at once wise, tender and mordantly funny.
Swathed in his kimono, drinking tea from his samovar, Henry Nagle is temperamentally opposed to life in the 21st century. Preferring not to contemplate the great intellectual and worldly success of his best boyhood friend, he argues constantly with his father, an upholsterer turned fire-eater–and now dead for many years. When he goes out at all, Henry goes after other men’s wives.
But when he mysteriously inherits a sumptuous apartment, Henry’s life changes, bringing on a slick descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson, an excitable red setter, and a wise-cracking waitress with a taste for danger. All of them demand his attention, even his love, a word which barely exists in Henry’s magisterial vocabulary, never mind his heart.
From one of England’s most highly regarded writers, The Making of Henryis a ravishing novel, at once wise, tender and mordantly funny.
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