Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/04/2011
ISBN: 9780099554165
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £9.99
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World.
It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air...
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/04/2011
ISBN: 9780099554165
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £9.99
The most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written
Ingenious and proliferate plotting...a new comic debacle over every page
Academic infightings, couplings, touching, funny and frightful set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before
A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes