Imprint: Vintage
Published: 28/01/2016
ISBN: 9781784702694
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 196g
RRP: £8.99
Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate picturegoers who touch and shape each other’s destinies.
Amongst them is Mark, the cynical intellectual who seeks sensuality and finds spirituality; Clare, his girlfriend, who loses faith and discovers passion; Father Kipling, the scandalized priest; and Harry, the sexually frustrated Teddy boy.
In his astutely observed first novel, David Lodge ushers in a congregation of characters whose hopes, confusions and foibles play out alongside the celluloid fantasies of the silver screen.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 28/01/2016
ISBN: 9781784702694
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 196g
RRP: £8.99
Sharp and real
Quirky and original
The Picturegoers' appeal derives as much from the quality of the writing as for its absorption in a bygone way of life
An excellent first novel... He has a wonderful eye for the tawdriness of our commercial world