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...Certainly, Kalooki Nights is crammed with the angst, humour and shiksa lust you’ll find in Roth, but it lacks the pace to sustain narrator Max Glickman’s relentless refrain: “Jew Jew, Jew Jew, Jew Jew”....
...Max Glickman, the narrator of Jacobson’s new novel Kalooki Nights (”kalooki” is the card game that Max’s mother plays with her friends), is also Jewish, also suffering a failing career (as a cartoonist)...
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