In the Land of Oz
Author(s): Howard Jacobson
On what he calls 'the adventure of his life', Howard Jacobson travels around Australia, never entirely sure where he is heading next or whether he has the courage to tackle the wild life of the bush, the wild men of the outback, or the even wilder women of the seaboard cities. In pursuit of the best of Australian good times, he joins revelers at Uluru, argues with racists in the Kimberleys, parties with wine-growers in the Barossa and falls for ballet dancers in Perth. And even as vexed questions of national identity and Aboriginal land rights present themselves, his love for Australia and Australians never falters.
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The Finkler Question has sold 500,000 copies worldwide (print and digital). This reissued edition, with a new foreword, accompanies the publication of his essays, WHATEVER IT IS, I DON'T LIKE IT Howard Jacobson lived in Melbourne and Sydney during the 60s and 70s In the vein of Bill Bryson's DOWN UNDER, but funnier!
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, most recently, the Man Booker Prize 2010-winning The Finkler Question. Howard Jacobson lives in London.
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 31 August 2011
- : 198mm X 129mm X 32mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 September 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Howard Jacobson
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 919.40464
- : 528
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