Peeping Tom
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
What begins as a comic riff on obsession quickly unravels into something far more unsettling in Howard Jacobson's Peeping Tom — a wickedly sharp novel following Barney Fugelman, a man so consumed by his voyeuristic fixations and literary pretensions that he can barely distinguish between his own life and the novels he has read. Set against the bleak yet darkly comedic backdrop of rural England, the novel chronicles Barney's increasingly unhinged attempts to write a book about Thomas Hardy while conducting a series of chaotic, ill-fated relationships with women who refuse to conform to his fantasies. Jacobson writes with a razor wit and an unflinching eye for male self-delusion, drawing on the great tradition of the English comic novel while simultaneously skewering it. Peeping Tom is a sustained and brilliant attack on literary romanticism, misogyny, and the absurdity of the artistic ego — a novel that leaves the reader laughing, wincing, and wondering just how much of Barney's madness they recognise in themselves.
Author: Howard Jacobson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Chatto & Windus
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
What begins as a comic riff on obsession quickly unravels into something far more unsettling in Howard Jacobson's Peeping Tom — a wickedly sharp novel following Barney Fugelman, a man so consumed by his voyeuristic fixations and literary pretensions that he can barely distinguish between his own life and the novels he has read. Set against the bleak yet darkly comedic backdrop of rural England, the novel chronicles Barney's increasingly unhinged attempts to write a book about Thomas Hardy while conducting a series of chaotic, ill-fated relationships with women who refuse to conform to his fantasies. Jacobson writes with a razor wit and an unflinching eye for male self-delusion, drawing on the great tradition of the English comic novel while simultaneously skewering it. Peeping Tom is a sustained and brilliant attack on literary romanticism, misogyny, and the absurdity of the artistic ego — a novel that leaves the reader laughing, wincing, and wondering just how much of Barney's madness they recognise in themselves.