Mother's Boy
A Writer's Beginnings
Howard Jacobson
- 'One
- of
- the
- all-time
- great
- memoirs'
- Daily
- Telegraph
'Wonderful...candid,
- shrewd
- and
- moving'
- William
- Boyd
'Laugh-out-loud
- glorious
- and
- uproarious'
- Simon
- SchamaHoward
- Jacobson's
- funny,
- revealing
- and
- tender
- memoir
- of
- his
- path
- to
- becoming
- a
- writer.Howard
- Jacobson
- was
- forty
- when
- his
- first
- novel
- was
- published.
- In
- Mother's
- Boy,
- 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.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
- are
- before
- you
- can
- become
- the
- writer
- you
- were
- meant
- to
- be.'Hilariously
- brilliant'
- David
- Baddiel'Howard
- Jacobson
- brilliantly
- transforms
- calamity
- into
- rip-roaring
- comedy'
- Craig
- Brown,
- Mail
- on Sunday
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