Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award, on Tuesday night for "The Finkler Question," a comic novel about friendship, wisdom and anti-Semitism.
For Thomas Bunstead in the Independent on Sunday, "whether writing on questions of class, race, language, cultural difference, or the people who touched him during the year, Markovits is... a sharpshooter"; the novel "wears its wisdom with a shrug".
Her second novel, The Getting of Wisdom (1910), is an account of her life at the boarding school in Melbourne.
Later novels include In Their Wisdom (1974) and Coat of Varnish (1979).
Christie's novels are full of wisdom about human psychology and behaviour, and they tend also to be ethical treatises and thought experiments.
The app correctly identified just about everything I threw at it: Xbox games, Pocketbook O'Reilly manuals, The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Wisdom, Kurt Vonegut novels, and a number of more obscure books (yes, it worked on The Twinkies Cookbook).
What then passes for wisdom in this novel?
"It is a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness," Professor Lee said.
Goat Man -- also known as Javier, though his real name is Stephen -- is Ellis's surrogate father and best friend, at once an eternal adolescent and the only source of adult wisdom in the novel.
In the posthumously published "Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish," Rakoff brings his satirical wit and wisdom to a novel that takes the form of a series of playfully rhyming prose poems ("Venetian palazzo floors pounded by horas/ Cut-velvet drapes framing chopped-liver Torahs").
