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Howard Jacobson

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Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, England, and educated at Cambridge. His many novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Who’s Sorry Now? and Kalooki Nights (both longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), and, most recently, The Act of Love. Jacobson is also a respected critic and broadcaster, and writes a weekly column for the Independent. He lives in London. [Source]

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Pearl Harbor is not just the place the Japanese bombed; it has a namesake, so christened for the blood that's been shed there  more blood than the original Pearl Harbor ever saw.

— from Act of Love

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Shylock is my name

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In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, merchant Antonio borrows from the Jewish moneylender Shylock, to help fund his friend Bassanio's wooing of the beautiful, prized Portia. Antonio, who makes no attempt to hide his loathing of Shylock, usury and everything Jewish, must promise in return a bond of a pound of his own flesh should he not be able to repay the debt. When Antonio's ships are lost at sea, it becomes clear he won't be able to service his debt. The case is heard at court; Antonio must honour his promise. Until an unknown lawyer arrives, talking of mercy, and picks the case apart. Howard Jacobson takes Shakespeare's great tale of vengeance and cruelty and propels it through space and time to the shiny modern world.

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No more mister nice guy

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Act of Love

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Cerianne Burton works at the Palace Theatre, a place of glamour and excitement to the people of Swansea at the turn of the twentieth century. But although she is only a menial cleaner, she dreams of seeing her name up in lights. Abused by the ruthless manager of the theatre, she is thrown out on the streets and forced into a brutal marriage with a widower who has five young children. Her life becomes one of hopeless drudgery, but she still has her ambitions ... and one day she is able to return in triumph to the Palace and have her revenge on the manager who set out to ruin her all those years ago.

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