Redback
  • Published: 4 June 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099277484
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99

Redback

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1 Aug 2011
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4 Jun 1999
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'The most dangerously funny writer in the English language' - Sunday Times

Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

Karl Leon Forelock is a product of the northern English town of Partington (the wettest spot in Europe) and a graduate with a double starred first in the Moral Decencies from Malapert college, Cambridge. Sent to Sydney on a CIA bursary on a mission to teach the Australians how to live, Leon quickly discovers that there are some natives who believe that they have an education to pass on in return. But it is at the hands of the women in Australia that Leon receives his most painful, and on occasions his most pleasurable, lessons.

Meanwhile, in a foul, dilapidated bush privy, way up in the Bogong high plains, the Redback sucks her teeth and waits her turn...
  • Published: 4 June 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099277484
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Howard Jacobson

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 Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.

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Praise for Redback

An outrageously gifted funny man

Guardian

It makes one laugh... and that is a gift above rubies

Financial Times

Redback does for Australia what Clive James has done for England... Literate, outrageously and consistently very funny

Time Out

The most beguiling innovation in British letters in years. Rude, stylish, conversational, pithy, anecdotal, ruminative, fantastical, self-deprecating, allusive

John Walsh

Dazzlingly, brilliantly clever; and side-splittingly, knee-slappingly funny

Washington Post
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