The Finkler Question |
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Author:
| Jacobson, Howard |
ISBN: | 978-1-4104-3532-3 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2011 |
Publisher: | Thorndike Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $31.99 |
Book Description:
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A New York Times Bestseller, Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize -- Julian Treslove, professionally unspectacular BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, popular Jewish philosopher and TV personality, are old school friends. They've never quite lost touch with each other -- or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick. Treslove dines with recent widows Libor and Finkler at Libor's London apartment for a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence. As Treslove walks home he is attacked and robbed, and...
More DescriptionA New York Times Bestseller, Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize -- Julian Treslove, professionally unspectacular BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, popular Jewish philosopher and TV personality, are old school friends. They've never quite lost touch with each other -- or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick. Treslove dines with recent widows Libor and Finkler at Libor's London apartment for a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence. As Treslove walks home he is attacked and robbed, and everything changes.