Live a little

a novel

Live a little

a novel
Howard Jacobson
Book - 2019

At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything <U+2013> including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with tangled stories of her husbands and love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without the aid of a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he<U+2019>s whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. Unlike Beryl, he forgets nothing <U+2013> especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has hung over him ever since. There<U+2019>s very little life remaining for either of them, but perhaps just enough to heal some of the hurt inflicted along the way, and find new meaning in what<U+2019>s left. Told with Jacobson<U+2019>s trademark wit and style, Live a Little is equal parts funny, irreverent and tender <U+2013> a novel to make you consider all the paths not taken, and whether you could still change course.

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Jacobson, Howard (Auteur)
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié: London : Hogarth, [2019]
Édition:First United States edition.
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