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About Howard Jacobson
See more books from this Authorwhen she’s not doing so, she snipes at him for his choice of profession, even though, Frank fumes, “without his watching that crap all day she couldn’t afford the luxury of writing a hundred words a month.” Frank finds himself thrust outside the door, shed of his cocoon.
Sep 01 2011 | Read Full Review of No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Novel“But what happens,” the book blurb plaintively asks, “when sex is all you know and yet no longer what you want?” Frank is 50, and the unforgiving reader might think that he could have developed another hobby by this time.
Sep 28 2011 | Read Full Review of No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Novelcousins drank themselves to death, had multiple marriages, went crazy and so on, just the way people do in other subcultures and classes of society—but Friend shows how these things are done among Wasps, and in particular how the ramifications are hidden from subsequent generations.
Sep 25 2009 | Read Full Review of No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Novel11, 2001, the U.S. military aid to Colombia under the heading “Plan Colombia” rapidly shifted from anti-drug trafficking to combating “narco-terrorism.” The FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) and the national paramilitary organization AUC (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia) appeared...
Dec 26 2008 | Read Full Review of No More Mr. Nice Guy: A NovelHochhuth writes that “more than any other, the German people are obligated to honour the right of asylum because, beginning in 1933, our elite, without exception from the Mann brothers to Einstein, survived the 12-year Nazi dictatorship purely because other countries, with the US as the greatest ...
Jul 22 2013 | Read Full Review of No More Mr. Nice Guy: A NovelAn aggregated and normalized score based on 16 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes