The mighty Walzer

By Howard Jacobson

Subjects: Fiction, coming of age, England, fiction, Fiction, sports, Fiction, humorous, general, Table tennis players, Fiction, Fiction, biographical, Table tennis, Young men

Description: In 1950s Manchester, England, Oliver Walzer, a shy Jewish boy, comes of age in a household dominated by women. He finds that he has a natural talent for ping-pong, but things do not go as smoothly for him when it comes to women and sex.