This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson's novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction.

David Brauner is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Reading

Introduction
1 'Being funny': comedy, the anti-pastoral and literary politics
2 'Being men': masculinity, mortality and sexual politics
3 'Being Jewish': Philip Roth, antisemitism and the Holocaust
Afterword
Select bibliography
Index