A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.
David Lodge (CBE)'s novels include Changing Places, Small World and
Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of
Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books
of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more
than thirty languages.
He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de
l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Lodge is a clear, sceptical writer, wise about things and a careful
reader and in general kind even to people who plainly irritate
him
*Spectator*
Lodge’s animating spark is his sedulousness, his ability to marshal
the facts, pronounce a judgement and then subtly qualify it
*Independent on Sunday*
Lodge, too original a writer to set down a conventional
autobiography, reveals himself in fragments, an anecdote here, a
recollection there. The collection, then, is a kind of trick:
portraits of others disguising a book about himself... This is a
hybrid work, well-suited to its hybrid author – rooted in fact but
entranced by fiction
*Financial Times*
The shrewd, amused intellect that Lodge brings to bear makes this
collection a consistent pleasure… Wise and genial
*The Times*
Generous but discriminating, lucid without sacrificing
complexity
*Sunday Times*
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