- Man Booker Prize Winner, Jews, Fiction, Jewish families
Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London--infant prodigy, brilliant barrister, the apple of his parents' eyes--until at forty-one he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.
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Grave, earnest, intimate and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Bernice Rubens
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton Ltd, Penguin, Pocket
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671506308
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