{"product_id":"mothers-boy-howard-jacobson-9781529115673","title":"Mother's Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003eHoward Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the all-time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph\n\u003cbr\u003e'Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd\n\u003cbr\u003e'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Simon Schama\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHoward Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHoward 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eInfused 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Hilariously brilliant' David Baddiel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Howard Jacobson brilliantly transforms calamity into rip-roaring comedy' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Howard Jacobson","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43818634772723,"sku":"9781529115673","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781529115673.jpg?v=1687989251","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/mothers-boy-howard-jacobson-9781529115673","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}