<p>In his provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson juxtaposes the unforgettable character of Shylock against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock as a man of incisive wit and passion, concerned still with questions of identity, parenthood, anti-Semitism, and revenge. While Strulovich struggles to reconcile himself to his daughter Beatrice's "betrayal" of her family and heritage--as she is carried away by the excitement of Manchester high society, and into the arms of a footballer notorious for giving a fascist salute on the field--Shylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with rage against his own daughter's rejection of her Jewish upbringing. Culminating in a shocking twist on Shylock's demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobson's insightful retelling examines contemporary, acutely relevant questions of Jewish identity while maintaining a poignant sympathy for its characters and a genuine spiritual kinship with its antecedent--a drama which Jacobson himself considers to be "the most troubling of Shakespeare's plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging." This book is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series; in the spirit of Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press, founded a hundred years ago with the mission to publish the best new writing of the age, the Hogarth Shakespeare project sees Shakespeare's works retold by some of today's finest novelists."[An] ebullient riff on Shakespeare.... 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."--NYTBR</p>

Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) (Hogarth Shakespeare)

HOWARD JACOBSON

The Hogarth Press Ltd.

Narrative of a Child Analysis (International Psycho-Analysis Library)

klein.melanie

Health, Fitness & Dieting

The psycho-analysis of children (The International psycho-analytical library)

Psychology & Counseling

Flamingo Feather, which Laurens van der Post dedicated to the 'fast vanishing Africa' of his boyhood, is a story of adventure - adventure unfolded in the great tradition of story-telling. It is the tale of two white hunters - one old, experienced and wise, one young and resolute - who suspect that something evil is being prepared on a vast scale in their country and who, with little to guide them, set out to track down its source. In the unfolding of their story, the immense scene of bush, forest, jungle, lake and mountain, the untamed wildlife and vivid animal beings, and the background mind and culture of the indigenous people in all their archaic reality, are evoked as never before. Indeed so deeply does the story draw on Laurens van der Post's knowledge of the country, so directly does it touch on vital elements in African life, that it carries the conviction of an authentic personal experience. Africa itself lies at the heart of the story, Africa as it has been and as it may yet become.

Flamingo Feather: A Story of Africa

Post, Laurens Van Der

Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreev

GORKY, MAXIM

Alienation in perversions (The International psycho-analytical library)

Khan, M. Masud R.

Self-Help

John Brown's body,

A.L. Barker

Ancient melodies;

Su Hua

Includes poems from Riding Lights, The Sinai Sort, A Common Grace, A Round of Applause, Measures, Rings on a Tree, Surroungs and A Man in My Position.

Selected poems

Literature & Fiction

Norman MacCaig

Poetry

This is Frances Tustin's first book and the original statement of her views on autistic states of mind and the genesis of varieties of childhood psychosis. In it, she tackles problems of diagnosis as these relate to therapeutic intervention.

Autism and childhood psychosis

Tustin, Frances

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