Whos Sorry Now Howard Jacobson by Howard Jacobson 9781446413142, 1446413144, B0055CS3Y8 instant download after payment.

A faithful husband takes the dangerous step of asking for a piece of his philandering friend’s disordered life, in Howard Jacobson’s bawdy comic tale.

Marvin Kreitman lives for sex. Or at least he lives for women. At present he loves four women - his mother, his wife, and his two daughters - and is in love with five more. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, loves just the one woman, the wife with whom he has been writing children's books and having nice sex for twenty years. Once a week the two friends meet for a lunch, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have - about fidelity and womanising. Until today.

"Who's Sorry Now? is, in its simplest form, an extended examination of unhappiness and misery. (...) He is, at the very least, a writer who talks about sex as if it isn't all about putting that in there, nor as if its potency can be neutralised by a proper discussion about gender relations and power structures. In other words, sex for grown-ups, and writing for grown-ups. That's why you can see in Jacobson the comic intelligence of David Lodge or Martin Amis, but why you also get the expansiveness of John Updike and Philip Roth. What you don't get is comfort, or good grace." - Alex Clark, The Guardian

Howard Jacobson has written sixteen novels and five works of non-fiction.  He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.