Howard Jacobson quote — “Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught busine…”

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Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has fallen out of print - 'The Very Model of a Man' is the only novel of mine that has - and so crops up infrequently in conversations with readers or indeed with oneself, revisiting it can be perilous.

Howard Jacobson

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