Shylock is my name / Howard Jacobson.
Publication details: London, England : Hogarth Shakespeare, 2016.Edition: First United States editionDescription: 277 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780701188993 (paperback)
- 9781781090282
- 823/.914 23
- PR6060.A32 S59 2016
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | JAC | Available | 060374 |
"The Merchant of Venice retold."
Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship. Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative Plurabelle (aka Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Christine) is the face of her own TV series, existing in a bubble of plastic surgery and lavish parties. She shares prejudices and a barbed sense of humour with her loyal friend D'Anton, whose attempts to play Cupid involve Strulovitch's daughter - and put a pound of flesh on the line.