{"product_id":"9781529115673-mothers-boy","title":"Mother's Boy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Writer's Beginnings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the all-time great memoirs' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wonderful.candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd\u003cbr\u003e'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Simon Schama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoward Jacobson was forty when his first novel was published. In \u003ci\u003eMother's Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, he traces the life that brought him there. Born into a working-class Jewish family in 1940s Manchester, he did not lack encouragement or subject matter. Jacobson takes us from childhood and studying at Cambridge, through landing in Sydney as a maverick young professor, and on to his first marriage and the birth of his son. Later, he begins new - and often surprising - ventures in places as disparate as London, Wolverhampton, Boscastle and Melbourne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInfused with bittersweet memories of Jacobson's parents and friends, this is the story of a writer's beginnings, and of learning to understand who you are before you can become the writer you were meant to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hilariously brilliant' David Baddiel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Howard Jacobson brilliantly transforms calamity into rip-roaring comedy' Craig Brown, \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40753231954017,"sku":"9781529115673","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32277515.jpg?v=1741219562","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529115673-mothers-boy","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}