At forty-five she [Violet Hunt] had already lost the beauty for which she had been admired in her younger years, and painted heavily to disguise a poor complexion, but her body was still slim and limber, able to adopt any attitude in bed he suggested, and to demonstrate a few that were new to him. […]
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A Man of Parts by David Lodge (2011)
Posted by Simon on September 13, 2016
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Deaf Sentence by David Lodge (2008)
An autobiographical author Lodge’s novels are strongly autobiographical and, laid end to end, build up to the portrait of a certain type of life and its possibilities – in a quiet way, he has recorded the experience of a generation. Out of the Shelter describes the boyhood and teenage years of the son of suburban […]
Posted by Simon on September 10, 2016
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The Picturegoers by David Lodge (1960)
First Hilda, then Damien, then Mark. Hilda’s life was ruined – she was a complete neurotic. Damien was all queer and twisted because he had thought she liked him when she didn’t. And Mark – he would never make a priest. He would end up as another frustrated religious failure like herself and Damien. Religion […]
Posted by Simon on June 24, 2015
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Thinks… by David Lodge (2001)
‘Imagine what the Richmonds’ dinner party would have been like, if everyone had had those bubbles over their heads that you get in kids’ comics, with “Thinks…” inside them.’… ‘I suppose that’s why people read novels,’ she says. ‘To find out what goes on in other peoples’ heads.’ ‘But all they really find out is […]
Posted by Simon on June 4, 2015
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Therapy by David Lodge (1995)
One of the depressing things about depression is knowing that there are lots of people in the world with far more reason to feel depressed than you have, and finding that, so far from making you snap out of your depression, it only makes you despise yourself more and thus feel more depressed. (Therapy, page […]
Posted by Simon on June 3, 2015
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Paradise News by David Lodge (1991)
The classic Lodge novel features an academic, often a bit fusty and behind-the-times (who at various points will give us potted and very readable summaries of his or her intellectual work) – taken out of their comfort zone (generally spirited abroad) – where their horizons are widened and their beliefs put to the test, where […]
Posted by Simon on June 1, 2015
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Nice Work by David Lodge (1988)
‘I feel as if I’m getting dragged into a classic realist text, full of causality and morality. How shall I get out of it?’ (Nice Work, Part 5, chapter 3) This is the third of the Changing Places trilogy (Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work), often seen gathered together in a hefty omnibus paperback edition. It is […]
Posted by Simon on May 29, 2015
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How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge (1980)
Ten characters is a lot to take in all at once, and soon there will be more, because we are going to follow their fortunes, in a manner of speaking, up to the present, and obviously they are not going to pair off with each other, that would be too neat, too implausible, so there […]
Posted by Simon on May 23, 2015
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Books & Boots 