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Also by Howard Jacobson:

Zoo Time, October 2012
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The Mighty Walzer, April 2011
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The Finkler Question, October 2010
Hardcover
Kalooki Nights, April 2007
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THE MIGHTY WALZER
By: Howard Jacobson

Bloomsbury Press
April 2011
On Sale: March 29, 2011
400 pages
ISBN: 1608196852
EAN: 9781608196852
Paperback
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From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural--at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis team, his game improves. And while the Akiva boys teach him everything he needs to know about ping-pong, his father, Joel Walzer, teaches him everything there is to know about "swag." Unabashedly autobiographical, this is an hilarious and heartbreaking story of one man's coming of age in 1950's Manchester.

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