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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 28/01/2016
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ISBN: 9781784702694
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
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Weight: 196g
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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.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 28/01/2016
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ISBN: 9781784702694
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
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Weight: 196g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"Sharp and real"
Kingsley Amis
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"Quirky and original"
Sunday Times
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"The Picturegoers' appeal derives as much from the quality of the writing as for its absorption in a bygone way of life"
Independent
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"An excellent first novel... He has a wonderful eye for the tawdriness of our commercial world"
Times
