{"product_id":"shylock-is-my-name","title":"Shylock is My Name","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Booker Prize\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAS SEEN ON BBC IMAGINE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt’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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoward 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream' Evening Standard\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47508807778598,"sku":"9781781090282","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/BookTemplate_1.png?v=1705506152","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/shylock-is-my-name","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}