# Shylock is My Name

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- Book: [Shylock is My Name](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-jacobson/shylock-is-my-name) ([Shylock is My Name.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-jacobson/shylock-is-my-name.md))
- Authors: [Howard Jacobson](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-jacobson)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 7 h 29 min
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
- ISBN: 978-14-7354-559-5
- Published: 2016-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 7 h 29 min

## Description

‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’ With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship. Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative Plurabelle (aka Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Christine) is the face of her own TV series, existing in a bubble of plastic surgery and lavish parties. She shares prejudices and a barbed sense of humour with her loyal friend D’Anton, whose attempts to play Cupid involve Strulovitch’s daughter – and put a pound of flesh on the line. Howard Jacobson’s version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world.