Peeping Tom
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
What happens when a man's obsession with watching becomes the lens through which an entire life unravels? Howard Jacobson's Peeping Tom chronicles the misadventures of Barney Fugleman, a writer of decidedly questionable moral character who is consumed by voyeurism, literary jealousy, and an all-encompassing fixation on Thomas Hardy. Set against a backdrop of English academe and bohemian drifting, the novel presents a richly comic portrait of a man undone by his own appetites — for women, for literature, and for the dangerous pleasure of observing without being seen. Jacobson writes with the razor wit and intellectual ferocity that would come to define his celebrated career, deploying irony and erudition in equal measure to dissect the male ego and the self-deceptions of the literary mind. Peeping Tom stands as a sharp, satirical comedy of manners that draws as much from the tradition of the English novel as it mocks it — a work that leaves the reader wondering where admiration ends and obsession dangerously begins.
Author: Howard Jacobson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
What happens when a man's obsession with watching becomes the lens through which an entire life unravels? Howard Jacobson's Peeping Tom chronicles the misadventures of Barney Fugleman, a writer of decidedly questionable moral character who is consumed by voyeurism, literary jealousy, and an all-encompassing fixation on Thomas Hardy. Set against a backdrop of English academe and bohemian drifting, the novel presents a richly comic portrait of a man undone by his own appetites — for women, for literature, and for the dangerous pleasure of observing without being seen. Jacobson writes with the razor wit and intellectual ferocity that would come to define his celebrated career, deploying irony and erudition in equal measure to dissect the male ego and the self-deceptions of the literary mind. Peeping Tom stands as a sharp, satirical comedy of manners that draws as much from the tradition of the English novel as it mocks it — a work that leaves the reader wondering where admiration ends and obsession dangerously begins.