Mother's Boy av Howard Jacobson

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<p><b>''One of the all-time great memoirs'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i><br>''Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving'' William Boyd<br>''Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious'' Simon Schama</b><br><br><b>Howard Jacobson''s funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer.</b><br><br>Howard Jacobson was forty when his first novel was published. In <i>Mother''s Boy</i>, he traces the life that brought him there. Born into a working-class Jewish family in 1940s Manchester, he did not lack encouragement or subject matter. Jacobson takes us from childhood and studying at Cambridge, through landing in Sydney as a maverick young professor, and on to his first marriage and the birth of his son. Later, he begins new - and often surprising - ventures in places as disparate as London, Wolverhampton, Boscastle and Melbourne.<br><br>Infused with bittersweet memories of Jacobson''s parents and friends, this is the story of a writer''s beginnings, and of learning to understand who you ar