The Dog's Last Walk
(And Other Pieces)
1st Edition
Published on 9. March 2017
304 pages
978-1-4088-4530-1 (ISBN)
Description
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'[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing' - The Times
'The author's prose is always a delight ... a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' - Times Literary Supplement
'Jacobson is one of the great sentence-builders of our time. I feel I have to raise my game, even just to praise ... In short, he is one of the great guardians of language and culture - all of it. Long may he flourish' - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
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Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting in inimitable style on the sacred and the profane in turn, the frivolous and the serious, the deeply personal and the most universal.
The shame and humiliation inherent in death is explored with frank astuteness. Matisse, darts and the power of love are celebrated; while cyclists are very much censured. And meanwhile, a beloved old Labrador walks his last walk as life elsewhere hurtles on and away...
The Dog's Last Walk is a collection of wisdom and iconoclasm for our uncertain times, and one that reveals one of our greatest writers in all his humanity.
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'Sharp and playful, surreal and thoughtful, and occasionally ... rather moving' - New Statesman
'Yes, Jacobson is an entertainer ... And he does indeed entertain, but in a way that stimulates rather than simply amuses' - Sunday Telegraph
'His columns were always one of the best things in [the Independent] - funny, argumentative, contrary and stuffed with ideas as well as a big, sympathetic personality' - Philip Hensher, Spectator
'[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing' - The Times
'The author's prose is always a delight ... a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' - Times Literary Supplement
'Jacobson is one of the great sentence-builders of our time. I feel I have to raise my game, even just to praise ... In short, he is one of the great guardians of language and culture - all of it. Long may he flourish' - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
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Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting in inimitable style on the sacred and the profane in turn, the frivolous and the serious, the deeply personal and the most universal.
The shame and humiliation inherent in death is explored with frank astuteness. Matisse, darts and the power of love are celebrated; while cyclists are very much censured. And meanwhile, a beloved old Labrador walks his last walk as life elsewhere hurtles on and away...
The Dog's Last Walk is a collection of wisdom and iconoclasm for our uncertain times, and one that reveals one of our greatest writers in all his humanity.
_______________
'Sharp and playful, surreal and thoughtful, and occasionally ... rather moving' - New Statesman
'Yes, Jacobson is an entertainer ... And he does indeed entertain, but in a way that stimulates rather than simply amuses' - Sunday Telegraph
'His columns were always one of the best things in [the Independent] - funny, argumentative, contrary and stuffed with ideas as well as a big, sympathetic personality' - Philip Hensher, Spectator
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-4530-1 (9781408845301)
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Person
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) the highly acclaimed The Act of Love and the 2010 Man Booker Prize-winning The Finkler Question. Howard Jacobson lives in London.
Content
- Cover
- A Note on the Author
- Dedication
- By the Same Author
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- The dog's last walk
- So long as there are women laughing, civilisation's safe
- Experience is lovelier than innocence
- How to live forever
- God is me
- Sweet boy, that Jihadi John
- All sportsmen die in hotels
- Did you see what my arm just did?
- Darts: the last refuge of the serious
- The erotic gravitas of George Galloway
- Toast
- In God's name, why?
- Fisherman's friend
- Ignorance is Bravo Lima India Sierra Sierra
- In the country of the deaf the man with subtitles is king
- Phoney racists
- 'Get out of my face!'
- Raising the age of consent
- Arrivederci Raffaele
- Rejoice!
- Fanatics only ever read one book
- Boris and the bikes
- Strictly turn-off
- Who dunnit? The one who dunnit last time
- Smiley face
- There was a rabbi of Kiev
- A pocket manual of blame
- Death is Venice
- How not to be a knob
- The glorious madness of Wisden
- You're going the wrong way, mate
- Let's introduce ourselves: what's your username?
- How very dare you
- You can't enjoy Proust or aloo gobi standing up
- Nice porn
- The shame that outlives us
- Calm down, dear
- The New Barbarism
- Shoot the highwayman
- But what if I don't want to connect to you?
- Nostril hair and the university
- How to be hip
- Peace
- The sweet seductiveness of loss
- Nellie, I am Catherine Earnshaw
- The phoenix and the turtle
- The wages of indulgence is darts
- What's Hecuba to you?
- In Leonard Cohen's fedora you too can look like L. S. Lowry
- The unhappy wanderer
- At least the old aren't young
- There's always another Dark Lady
- Bastard
- Scrooge
- Is that all there is?
- Flyting, sledging, and where to stick your asterisks
- Wasp watching
- Steady on, Lawrence
- Conformity kills
- Happy now?
- A self-effacing man
- When enough's enough
- The world turned upside down
- Down and out in Covent Garden
- The star is fallen
- Advice to a young artist: Don't be yourself
- Cropper
- Tenho saudades tuas
- Preacher man
- American buffalo
- Norovirus
- Nani in space
- The Queen versus Edward Snowden
- Into the digital darkness
- Nights in white satin
- nuns in red nighties
- Killing is a serious business
- In praise of insincerity
- The ghost speech
- Yes but no but
- And no I said no I won't No: Molly Bloom decides against casting a vote in the 2015 elections
- Culpability Brown
- Don't ask me
- Dumb also degrades
- The dying bug
- Weeping in the new year
- Is that a bomb you're carrying or are you just pleased to see me?
- Damnation for dummies
- Remembering Odin Testostenhammur
- Clowns
- It isn't a day of rest we need, it's a day unlike the day before
- These things of darkness
- Offence is sacred
- And it's goodnight from him
- A Note on the Type
- Adverts
- Copyright
