What Will Survive of Us von Howard Jacobson

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 304 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Verlag: Random House UKVintage
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781529921489

A tender love story... Jacobson's sentences have always been things of beauty: ornate yet vigorous Daily Telegraph

Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age?<br><br>'Wonderfully wise, moving and heartfelt'WILLIAM BOYD<br><br>'A tender love story'DAILY TELEGRAPH<br><br>*LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025*<br><br>Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily has never quite believed in love, while Sam thought he understood it inside out.<br><br>Lily, a documentary maker, and Sam, a playwright, are both in relationships that have quietly expired, and an affair takes hold that they are powerless to resist.<br><br>Arriving in mid-life, their relationship opens unexpected new worlds. But what will happen to them when familiarity and age begin to take their toll? What will survive?<br><br>'Celebrates love in later life'<br>HARPER'S BAZAAR<br><br>'Playful, knowing...a romping read in all senses'<br>EVENING STANDARD<br><br>'Jacobson at his finest'<br>LINDA GRANT

2GBHoward Jacobsonhas written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 forThe Mighty Walzerand then again in 2013 forZoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize forThe Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 forJ.

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