Howard Jacobson Pens Savage Satire ‘Pussy’

They say that writing is a great healer, and getting things down on paper is a great way to share your feelings on things, and maybe this is what author Howard Jacobson was doing when he sat down and penned the savage satire ‘Pussy’.

The Booker Prize winning author has admitted the book is a direct retory to the current US presidency, and publishers Jonathan Cape is publishing the novel as a paperback in the spring of this year.

Cape have said that the fairy tale for grown ups was written in white heat, in the disbelief of the election results and the author believes this untempered ridicule ridicule is the only appropriate response to the absurdity of the situation.

The publisher says “Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and egotistic; has no manners, no curiosity, no knowledge, no idea and no words in which to express them. Could he, in that case, be the very leader to make the country great again?”

Jacobson is the author of 14 novels and 5 nonfiction works. He won the Man Booker Prize or The Finkler Question and was shortlisted again in 2014 for his most recent novel J. Pussy will be released on 13th April in paperback form. It isn’t yet available for pre-order on Amazon but you may be able to put in an order in your local bookshop.