Synopses & Reviews
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"Jacobson...writes hilarious and unpredictable sentences....Kalooki Nights begs many questions; the reader will have to be satisfied with never learning the answers." Los Angeles Times
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"[H]arshly funny in places...deeply, darkly comedic....[A] thriller, a diatribe, an intellectual exercise." Baltimore Sun
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"Jacobson's prose is pure pleasure concise, markedly insightful, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny and his message, ultimately, is a heartbreaker. An exceptional novel." Booklist
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"Jacobson is often compared to Philip Roth, but his is a sweeter voice." Library Journal
About the Author
Howard Jacobson is the author of four works of non-fiction and seven novels, including The Mighty Walzer, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for comic writing, and Who's Sorry Now, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He has a weekly column for The Independent and regularly reviews and writes for The Guardian, The Times and The Evening Standard, Jacobson has also done several specials for British television. He lives in London.