The Finkler question
Jacobson, Howard
The Finkler question / Howard Jacobson - London : Bloomsbury , 2010, 2010. - 307 pages ; 24 cm
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Dining together one night at Sevcik's apartment the two Jewish widowers and the unmarried Gentile, Treslove the men share a sweetly painful evening, reminiscing on a time before they had loved and lost, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. But as Treslove makes his way home, he is attacked and mugged outside a violin dealer's window. Treslove is convinced the crime was a misdirected act of anti-Semitism, and in its aftermath, his whole sense of self will ineluctably change.
9781408808870
2010474930
Male friendship----Fiction
Older men----Fiction
Teachers----Fiction
Jewish authors----Fiction
Radio producers and directors----Fiction
PR6060.A32 / F56 2010
FIC JAC
The Finkler question / Howard Jacobson - London : Bloomsbury , 2010, 2010. - 307 pages ; 24 cm
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Dining together one night at Sevcik's apartment the two Jewish widowers and the unmarried Gentile, Treslove the men share a sweetly painful evening, reminiscing on a time before they had loved and lost, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. But as Treslove makes his way home, he is attacked and mugged outside a violin dealer's window. Treslove is convinced the crime was a misdirected act of anti-Semitism, and in its aftermath, his whole sense of self will ineluctably change.
9781408808870
2010474930
Male friendship----Fiction
Older men----Fiction
Teachers----Fiction
Jewish authors----Fiction
Radio producers and directors----Fiction
PR6060.A32 / F56 2010
FIC JAC
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