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Coming From Behind

Howard Jacobson

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ISBN: 9780099452034
Author: Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date of Publication: 2011-06-06
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.44
(rated by 208 readers)

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Sefton mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organized games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject. In the meantime, he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalization can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another’s success.
 

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