It’s hard to imagine a luckier young woman than Katharine, the protagonist of Barbara Trapido’s 1982 novel “Brother of the More Famous Jack.” A child of humble beginnings (her father was the local greengrocer in a provincial English hamlet), she is granted the opportunity to study philosophy with Jacob Goldman, a furry, boisterous, lefty professor from London’s East End.
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It’s hard to imagine a luckier young woman than Katharine, the protagonist of Barbara Trapido’s 1982 novel “Brother of the More Famous Jack.” A child of humble beginnings (her father was the local greengrocer in a provincial English hamlet), she is granted the opportunity to study philosophy with Jacob Goldman, a furry, boisterous, lefty professor from London’s East End.