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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A blackly comic novel from the British Philip Roth, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize'This book is Jacobson's masterpiece' Jonathan Freedland'A work of genius' A.C. Grayling, The TimesWild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be human.Max Glickman is son to an atheist boxer, Jack 'The Jew' Glickman, and a glamorous card-playing mother. Growing up in the peace and security of the 1950s Manchester suburbs, the word 'extermination' haunts his vocabulary and Nazis lurk in his imagination.When his childhood friend Manny is released from prison, the tug of religion and history proves too strong to be ignored and Max must accept there is no refuge from the dead.'Raging, contentious, hilarious, holy, deicidal, heart-breaking' Sunday Telegraph Grayling, The TimesWild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be human. Max Glickman is son to an atheist boxer, Jack 'The Jew' Glickman, and a glamorous card-playing mother. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780099501367
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Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. Seller Inventory # B9780099501367
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 480 pages. 7.76x5.12x1.18 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __0099501368
Book Description Condition: New. 2007. New Ed. Paperback. Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one is much interested. He is drawn into the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and should be, no release. This book is a comedy of cataclysm. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 330. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780099501367
Book Description Condition: New. 2007. New Ed. Paperback. Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one is much interested. He is drawn into the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and should be, no release. This book is a comedy of cataclysm. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 330. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780099501367