THE FINKLER QUESTION
By Howard Jacobson
Bloomsbury. 370 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978 1 408 809 938
Never again will I believe an iota of the critical quotes on a book’s cover.
‘I don’t know a funnier writer’, says Jonathan Safran Foer, and, ‘Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding’, says The Guardian of 2010’s Booker prize-winning The Finkler Question. After trudging through the 370 pages, I can’t agree at all.
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