Howard Jacobson | Zoo Time
Recorded 10/24/2012
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“As the brightness of his brilliance is hard to look at, so is the darkness of his humor. I don't know a funnier writer alive,” wrote Jonathan Safran Foer of Howard Jacobson’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Finkler Question. An acerbic critic and broadcaster with a passion for literature and art, Jacobson explores human existence through the lens of contemporary Judaism. His novels include Coming From Behind, Peeping Tom, No More Mister Nice Guy, The Mighty Walzer, and Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It, a collection his weekly columns for The Independent. In his new novel, Zoo Time, a jaded novelist in search of new material takes an attraction to his alluring, angry mother-in-law to another level.