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- Nice Work
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- Ginger, You're Barmy, 1962
- The British Museum is Falling Down, 1965
- The Novelist at the Crossroads -(criticism), 1971
- Changing Places, 1975
- How Far Can You Go? (US title Souls and Bodies), 1980
- Out of the Shelter, 1985
- Small World: An Academic Romance, 1985
- Paradise News, 1991
- Therapy, 1995
- Consciousness and the Novel -(criticism), 2003
A Good Place To Start
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| Small World: An Academic Romance | 1 | |
| Changing Places | 1 |
A Bad Place To Start
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| Out of the Shelter | 1 |
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David Lodge
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I usually turn to Lodge for his laugh-out-loud wit, but his very literary "Author, Author" gets my starting-point vote. If you love Henry James (as I do), you'll find this well-imagined tour of James' writerly frustrations, passions, friendships and jealousies compelling.
Andrew February 2nd, 2006 09:39 AM PST
Many, if not most, of David Lodge's novels are set in academia. Therefore I think it's best to start with one of these campus novels. In particular, I'd recommend Changing Places. My second choice as a starting point would be Small World, but that's something of a sequel to CP.
Lodge's best novel, in my opinion, is How Far Can You Go? That's a Catholic novel that starts on a campus, rather than a campus novel.
I've yet to read Author, Author but, however good it is, I don't think I'd recommend it as a Lodge entry point.
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Born January 28, 1935 in London… studied at University College London… PhD at the University of Birmingham, taught English literature at the University of Birmingham from 1960 until 1987, when he retired to become a full-time writer. Many of his characters are Roman Catholic, and their Catholicism is also one of his themes. In CHANGING PLACES, Rummidge is modeled after Birmingham and Euphorias State University is a thinly disguised version of Berkeley.
wards and recognition: twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Whitbread and Commonwealth Writers prizes; others. Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
[readandgo.com).
jill smolowe January 28th, 2006 08:42 AM PST