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Shylock Is My Name - (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Howard Jacobson (Paperback)

 Shylock Is My Name - (Hogarth Shakespeare) by  Howard Jacobson (Paperback)
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<b>International Praise for <i>Shylock Is My Name</i> </b> <p/>"[An] ebullient riff on Shakespeare... [a] blend of purposeful deja vu and Jewish fatalism...Jacobson's highflying wit is more Stoppardian than Shakespearean, even amid rom-com subplots and phallocentric jests equally well suited to Elizabethan drama as to the world of Judd Apatow."<br><i><b>-- The New York Times Book Review</b></i> <p/>"Jacobson... has delivered with authority and style... [a] deft artist firmly in control, offering witty twists to a play long experienced by many as a racial tragedy." <br><b>--</b> <b><i>The Washington Post</i></b> <p/>"Sharply written, profoundly provocative." <br><b><i>--The Huffington Post</i></b> <p/>The Shylock of the novel is ... a character in search of an author, or at least an author who will write him fully, fill in the blanks and give him a voice where once he was voiceless. And in Jacobson, after just over 400 years, he has found a <i>mensch </i>who has done--with considerable skill--exactly that.<br><b><i>-- The Daily Beast</i></b> <p/>"Stimulating... Jacobson is ideally suited to take on 'Merchant.'"<br>-- <b><i>The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</i></b> <p/>"It is delicious...Jacobson is one of our finest writers." <br><b><i>-- Forward</i></b> <p/>"A funny and insightful reimagining of <i>The Merchant of Venice</i>...Jacobson is uniquely qualified to take on <i>The Merchant of Venice</i>."<br><b><i>-- The Miami Herald</i></b> <p/>"A serious comic masterpiece." <br>--<b> <i>The Spectator</i> (UK) </b> <p/>"Supremely stylish, probing and unsettling...This Shylock is a sympathetic character... both savagely funny and intellectually searching, both wise and sophistical, intimate and coldly controlling... Jacobson's writing is virtuoso. He is a master of shifting tones, from the satirical to the serious. His prose has the sort of elastic precision you only get from a writer who is truly in command." <br><b>-- <i>The Independent</i> (UK) </b> <p/>"Jacobson takes the play's themes - justice, revenge, mercy, Jews and Christians, Jew-hatred, fathers and daughters - and works away at them with dark humour and rare intelligence... This is Jacobson at his best. There is no funnier writer in English today. Not just laugh-out-loud humour, though there is plenty of that, including wonderful jokes about circumcision and masturbation. But a sharp, biting humour, which stabs home in a single line... This is one of his best novels yet."<b> <br> - <i>Jewish Chronicle</i> (UK)</b> <p/>"Part remake, part satire and part symposium, Jacobson's Merchant is less Shakespeare retold than Shakespeare reverse-engineered... in these juicy, intemperate, wisecracking squabbles, Jacobson really communicates with Shakespeare's play, teasing out the lacunae, quietly adjusting its emphases ... and making startlingly creative use of the centuries-old playscript." <br>--<b><i>Daily Telegraph</i> (UK)</b> <p/> "Jacobson, with glorious chutzpah, gives Shylock his Act V, and the end when it comes is extremely satisfying... Provocative, caustic and bold." <br><b>-- <i>Financial Times</i> (UK)</b> <p/>Jacobson is a novelist of ideas... What is added to a great work in the rewriting? Do we need the argot of the 21st century because the original is now intimidatingly remote? [<i>Shylock Is My Name</i>] is a moving, disturbing and compelling riposte to the blithe resolution offered in the urtext.<b><br>--<i> Sydney Morning Herald</i> (Australia)</b> <p/> "Jacobson treats Shylock less as a product of Shakespeare's culture and imagination than as a real historical figure emblematic of Jewish experience--an approach that gives the novel peculiar vigour." <br><b>- <i>Prospect </i>Magazine (UK)</b> <p/> "When Shylock and Strulovitch are swapping jokes, stories, and fears, the tale is energetic...a work that stands on its own." <br>- <b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b> <p/> <i>"The Merchant</i> is well-suited to Jacobson, a Philip Roth-like British writer known for his sterling prose and Jewish themes....full of the facile asides and riffs for which Jacobson has been praised." -- <b><i>Kirkus</i></b>

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