Howard Jacobson awoke to the news of Trump’s victory in November. He had no newspaper column so, what could he do? Write a novel, said his wife, and he did, in six weeks. It is called Pussy, and it is a short and horrifying hypothetical biography of Donald Trump, now an infant prince called Fracassus, born into a noble family of property developers.
Tanya Gold
Trump, the emptiest mind
An interview with Howard Jacobson, whose new novel explores the hinterland of the infant US President
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