{"product_id":"9780099593287","title":"Shylock is My Name : The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Jacobson, Howard \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 August 2016 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Hogarth Shakespeare' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e192 x 118 x 19 | 202g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. 'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream' Evening Standard'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44291193209072,"sku":"9780099593287","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9780099593287.jpg?v=1713456670","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.live\/products\/9780099593287","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}