Bloomsbury Publishing India Private Limited Zoo Time - Softcover

About the book : novelist guy ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wifevanessa, beautiful but contrary, highly strung and blazingly angrythe trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother,poppy their provocative presence fills guys head with stories sowild he cant concentrate to write them not that anyone readsanymore, anyway reading, guy fears, is finished his publisher,fearing the same, has committed suicide his agent, like allagents, is in hiding vanessa, however, is writing her own novelguy dreads the consequences our funniest writer at his brilliantbest, zoo time is a novel about love - love of women, love ofliterature, love of laughter about the author : an award-winning writer and broadcaster, howard jacobson wasborn in manchester, brought up in prestwich and was educated atstand grammar school in whitefield, and downing college, cambridge,where he studied under f r leavis he lectured for three years atthe university of sydney before returning to teach at selwyncollege, cambridge his novels include the mighty walzer (winner ofthe bollinger everyman wodehouse prize), kalooki nights (longlistedfor the man booker prize), the highly acclaimed the act of loveand, most recently, the man booker prize-winning, the finklerquestion howard jacobson lives in soho, london