- Title:
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Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (MP3)
- Series:
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Hogarth Shakespeare
- Written by:
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Howard Jacobson
- Read by:
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Michael Kitchen
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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7 hours 29 minutes
- MP3 size:
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357 MB
- Published:
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February 04 2016
- Available Date:
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February 04 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489091147
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Howard Jacobson’s version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world.
'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.