The Mighty Walzer - Rilegato

Jacobson, Howard

3,48

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ISBN 10: 0224051571 ISBN 13: 9780224051576

Casa editrice: Jonathan Cape, 1999

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From the very beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. Without even a bat (he plays with the Collins Classic edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis team and stalwart of the Kardoma coffee bar, his game improves.

Twink, Aishky, Sheeny, Louis: the Akiva boys teach Walzer everything there is to know about ping-pong, at least as it is played in the Manchester and District League. His father, Joel Walzer, market trader, teaches him everything there is to know about 'swag': Dutch pee-pee boys with Chinese faces, flowery wall plates, pouffes shaped like grand pianos. . .

Unabashedly autobiographical, this story of one man's coming of age in the Manchester of the 1950s is hilarious and heartbreaking. It won the Everyman Wodehouse Award for comic writing when it was published in 1999.

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Recensione:

"The most dangerously funny writer in the English language." - Sunday Times
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Descrizione del libro:

Jacobson's masterpiece: sex, death and ping-pong in Manchester in the 1950s.

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