Redback

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Description

Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize.Karl Leon Forelock is a product of the northern English town of Partington (the wettest spot in Europe) and a graduate with a double starred first in the Moral Decencies from Malapert college, Cambridge. Sent to Sydney on a CIA bursary on a mission to teach the Australians how to live, Leon quickly discovers that there are some natives who believe that they have an education to pass on in return. But it is at the hands of the women in Australia that Leon receives his most painful, and on occasions his most pleasurable, lessons. Meanwhile, in a foul, dilapidated bush privy, way up in the Bogong high plains, the Redback sucks her teeth and waits her turn…

Additional information

Weight 0.248 kg
Dimensions 2.3 × 12.7 × 19.5 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

368

Publisher

Year Published

1999-5-6

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099277484

About The Author

Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.

An outrageously gifted funny man

Other text

It makes one laugh… and that is a gift above rubies

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