The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work - Couverture souple

Lodge, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143120204 ISBN 13 : 9780143120209

Editeur : Penguin Books, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Lodge David

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"A trio of dazzling novels in a comic mode that the author has now made completely his own...a cause for celebration." -The New York Times Book Review

David Lodge's three delightfully sophisticated campus novels, now gathered together in one volume, expose the world of academia at its best-and its worst. In Changing Places, we meet Philip Swallow, British lecturer in English at the University of Rummidge, and the flamboyant American Morris Zapp of Euphoric State University, who participate in a professorial exchange program at the close of the tumultuous sixties. Ten years later in Small World, older but not noticeably wiser, they are let loose on the international conference circuit-along with a memorable and somewhat oversexed cast of dozens. And in Nice Work, the leftist feminist Dr. Robyn Penrose at Rummidge University is assigned to shadow the director of a local engineering firm, sparking a collision of ideologies and lifestyles that seems unlikely to foster anything other than mutual antipathy.

Quatrième de couverture :

WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR

'A trio of dazzling novels in a comic mode that the author has now made completely his own... a cause for celebration' New York Times Review of Books

The plot lines of The Campus Trilogy, radiating from its hub at the redbrick University of Rummidge, trace the comic adventures of academics who move outside familiar territory. Beginning in the late 60s Changing Places follows the undistinguished English lecturer Philip Swallow and hotshot American professor Morris Zapp as they exchange jobs, habitats and eventually wives. Small World sees Swallow, Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the beautiful Angelica Pabst jet-set about the international conference scene, combining academic infighting and tourism, esoteric chat and romance. And finally, the feminist lecturer Robyn Penrose swaps the industrial novel for a hard hat in Nice Work as she shadows the factory boss Victor Wilcox. Sparks fly when their beliefs and lifestyles collide.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0143120204
• ISBN 13: 9780143120209
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 832