All For Love

By the Same Author

NOVELS

The Trap

A Dance in the Sun

The Price of Diamonds

The Beginners

The Rape of Tamar

The Confessions of Josef Baisz

Her Story

The Wonder-Worker

The God-Fearer

SHORT STORIES

Through the Wilderness: Selected Stories

ESSAYS

Adult Pleasures

TRAVEL AND MEMOIRS

Time and Time Again

The Electronic Elephant

Heshel’s Kingdom

All For Love

A Novel

DAN JACOBSON

HAMISH HAMILTON

an imprint of

PENGUIN BOOKS

HAMISH HAMILTON

First published 2005
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EISBN: 978–0–141–90171–8

Errors, like Straws, upon the surface flow;

He who would search for Pearls must dive below.

John Dryden, Prologue to All For Love (1678)