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Howard Jacobson on The Act of Love

Sept 2008 - March 2009

Howard Jacobson is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book.

http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=022408609X

The Act of Love is naked, haunting, unflinching. Its account of sexual obsession is frightening, painful and finally very moving. A tour de force." HAROLD PINTER.
Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He runs one of the oldest antiquarian bookshops in London and his wife, Marisa, is unfaithful to him. All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them. This is a story about agony-addiction, the nature of desire itself, the exquisiteness of loss, and the universality of the impulse - whether a jealous husband's or an avid reader's - to play the voyeur.

For more information please contact Chloe Johnson-Hill on cjohnson-hill@randomhouse.co.uk or 0207 840 8563