The Making of HenryJonathan Cape, 2004 - 340 páginas Acclaimed as Britain’s greatest and most underrated novelist, this is Howard Jacobson’s masterpiece. One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel receives a solicitor’s letter telling him he has inherited a sumptuous apartment in St. John’s Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father’s love nest? Henry doesn’t know, but he is glad to escape the North, where there is nothing to keep him. After nearly sixty years of angry disappointment, Henry’s life is about to change. Not that the ghosts of Henry’s past are prepared to disappear without a struggle – his old friend and rival Osmond “Hovis” Belkin, currently enjoying a spectacularly successful career in Hollywood, his great aunt Marghanita for whom he once entertained a dangerous passion, and his father Izzi Nagel, upholsterer turned illusionist, fire-eater and origamist, whose shade Henry interrogates relentlessly. But the present clamours as loudly as the past. His dyspeptic neighbour Lachlan wants his sympathy, Lachlan’s sloppy red setter, Angus, wants a walk, and Moira, the waitress with the crooked smile and custard hair, seems to want him. Kicking and screaming every inch of the way, Henry realizes he might finally be falling in love. Will love be the making of Henry? Tender, funny and beautifully told, The Making of Henry is Howard Jacobson’s richest novel to date. The writing makes you gasp with pleasure, the story builds effortlessly to its crescendo of revelations and, above all, it adds a new warmth to his reputation as the most exhilaratingly intelligent of contemporary novelists. |
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... death did them ... Death being the hardest part . Though even in the matter of helping out should she cut her finger or get some- thing in her eye Henry knew himself to be unreliable . Too squeamish . Unfitted to be of use to anybody in ...
... death did them ... Death being the hardest part . Though even in the matter of helping out should she cut her finger or get some- thing in her eye Henry knew himself to be unreliable . Too squeamish . Unfitted to be of use to anybody in ...
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... death . Chaos life , order death . This had nothing to do with Henry wanting to throw his socks about the bedroom floor . In fact , Henry had always been a neat person with a side parting , who kept his clothes in drawers and his papers ...
... death . Chaos life , order death . This had nothing to do with Henry wanting to throw his socks about the bedroom floor . In fact , Henry had always been a neat person with a side parting , who kept his clothes in drawers and his papers ...
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... death from the kid – that sound . Used on Henry before , first when poor Anastasia decided to give up the ghost while they were visiting her mob- handed in ... death all around him , with death nudging into the peripheries of his 128.
... death from the kid – that sound . Used on Henry before , first when poor Anastasia decided to give up the ghost while they were visiting her mob- handed in ... death all around him , with death nudging into the peripheries of his 128.
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