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Title: A HORSE WALKS INTO A BAR
By: David Grossman, Jessica Cohen (Trans)
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £8.99


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ISBN 10: 1473545803
ISBN 13: 9781473545809
Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 10 November, 2016
Pages: 208
Translated from: Hebrew
Synopsis: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic - charming, erratic, repellent - exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him.A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't know whether to laugh or cry - and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he's been summoned to this performance.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Prizes: Long-listed for The International Man Booker Prize 2017 (UK)
Returns: Non-returnable
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