Book Summary of The Finkler Question
Julian
Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and
Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television
personality, are old school friends. Despite very different lives,
they’ve never quite lost touch with each other – or with their former
teacher, Libor Sevcik. Both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and
together with Treslove they share a sweetly painful evening revisiting a
time before they had loved and lost. It is that very evening, when
Treslove hesitates a moment as he walks home, that he is attacked – and
his whole sense of who and what he is slowly and ineluctably changes.
About the Author
An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and, most recently, the highly acclaimed The Act of Love. Howard Jacobson lives in London.
About the Author
An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and, most recently, the highly acclaimed The Act of Love. Howard Jacobson lives in London.
Details of Book: The Finkler Question
| Book: | The Finkler Question |
| Author: | Howard Jacobson |
| ISBN: | 1408809931 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781408809938,978-1408809938 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Publishing Date: | 2011 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Language: | English |
| Dimensions: | 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.79 inches |
| Weight: | 270 grams |
| Awards: | 2010 2010 The Man Booker Prize Winner |
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