{"product_id":"live-a-little-by-howard-jacobson","title":"Live a Little by Howard Jacobson","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eHoward Jacobson’s “wonderful” 16th novel is a “nonagenarian love story”, said Tim Adams in The Observer. Shimi and Beryl live on opposite sides of north London’s Finchley Road. He is 91, and “can remember everything”. She is a little older, and is “in a daily fight against forgetting”. When the novel opens, the pair have yet to meet; “inevitably, slowly”, they come together, and discover that they have a connection rooted in the past. Jacobson dramatises their story with great “verve and tenderness”, while never passing up opportunities for comedy: Shimi’s many admirers, he writes, view him as “the last of the eligible bachelors – by which they mean the last man able to do up his own buttons”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eSince winning the Booker Prize with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Finkler Question\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein 2010, Jacobson has written a series of “grave, message-heavy novels”, said Alexander Nurnberg in The Sunday Times.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLive a Little\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a return to the warmer comedy of his early career. “To the extent that it is informing his fiction, we should all be grateful that Howard Jacobson is getting older.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54038036283668,"sku":"zok1789766800607","price":20.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/live-a-little-by-howard-jacobson_1.jpg?v=1789766805","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/live-a-little-by-howard-jacobson","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}