Clive Sinclair: 4 books
by Clive Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
"I am convinced, " says Jake Silkstone, the hypochondriac narrator of Clive Sinclair's still provocative novel, "that if Rabbi Nathan hadn't tried to rape Helga, our German au pair, during the course of my barmitzvah celebrations at the Café Royal on the evening of 21 May 1961, things...
by Clive Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Tales of America, adultery, football, incest, love, paranoia, sadism and Zionism.... Wickedly funny these stories may be, but heartless they are not. Disturbing images abound; like the loving family that feasts upon living butterflies; and other images that connect the themes with places deeper than...
by Clive Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Clive Sinclair's first collection of stories won the Somerset Maugham Award. His second was short-listed for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Award. His third won both the PEN Silver Pen, and the Jewish Quarterly Award. This is his fourth. The new stories range from New Orleans and Texas, to Peru, Venice,...
by Clive Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Since his first public appearance in the late 1590s, Shylock has been synonymous with antisemitism. Many of his bon mots remain common currency among Jew-haters; among them "3000 ducats" and the immortal "pound of flesh". But Shakespeare, being Shakespeare, was incapable of inventing...