The Act of Love: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
Jacobson has chosen to speak through this voice, which can be in turns tedious, ridiculous and overwrought. So we must blame Jacobson for, say, making small matters loom too large: the lined face “suggesting ecological catastrophe”; “the apocalyptic impatience” of desire; the end of an affair linked [...]

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