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Sarah Allen  |  Features  |  Secular Shelf Life
Date posted:  1 Nov 2011
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THE FINKLER QUESTION
By Howard Jacobson
Bloomsbury. 370 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978 1 408 809 938

Never again will I believe an iota of the critical quotes on a book’s cover.

‘I don’t know a funnier writer’, says Jonathan Safran Foer, and, ‘Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding’, says The Guardian of 2010’s Booker prize-winning The Finkler Question. After trudging through the 370 pages, I can’t agree at all.

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