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Finkler Question

The Guardian Picks The 5 Best Lines From The Year's Best Books

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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"A precocious anarchist, at 13 Sherman told me he was going to strip naked, except for a skullcap and an attaché case, then stump into Grodzinski's, ...

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Booker Winner 'Finkler Question' Reviewed By Ron Charles

washingtonpost.com | Ron Charles | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Although there is a plot, "The Finkler Question" is really a series of tragicomic meditations on one of humanity's most tenacious expressions of malic...

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Howard Jacobson Wins The Man Booker Prize 2010

The Guardian | Mark Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Howard Jacobson's laugh-out-loud exploration of Jewishness, The Finkler Question, tonight became the first unashamedly comic novel to win the Man Book...

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Literary Prize

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Jacobson should not win because he has played up to the vague notions of the reviewers and judges and flattered them into thinking that, in The Finkle...

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