Synopses & Reviews
Review
"If academic life were really like this, it is a toss-up whether or not people would rush toward it pell-mell. Lodge's book is funny. His characters, their lives, and their
schools and conferences are exaggerated, but they hold their grain of truth. If the secret of caricature is verisimilitude, David Lodge wins here hands down." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
David Lodge is the author of twelve novels and a novella, including the Booker Prize finalists Small World and Nice Work. He is also the author of many works of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction and Consciousness and the Novel.