Howard Jacobson: Like a Bolt Out the Blue

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Howard Jacobson: Like a Bolt Out the Blue

What happens when love surprises you later in life? How long can it last? Howard Jacobson, Booker-prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and author of more than twenty books besides, explores this, and more, in What Will Survive of Us: a tender new novel about the complexities that arise when new love and desire are met with the realities of aging bodies. Join him in conversation with Lennie Goodings.

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