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Zoo Time

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  • Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2013)
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Zoo Time

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ISBN: 9781408837443
Authors: Howard Jacobson
Date of Publication: 2013-05-16
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 2.91
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Description

velist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy s peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. t that anyone reads Guy, anyway. t that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn t expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if it s time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn t. And out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry, elegiac and rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love - love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.
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