Small World - Couverture souple

Lodge, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0446393274 ISBN 13 : 9780446393270

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing, 1991

Synopsis

Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance". From the author of the award-winning Changing Places.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

'Ingenious and proliferate plotting...a new comic debacle over every pages' The Times

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...

'Academic infightings, couplings touching, funny and frightful, set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before' Sunday Telegraph

'A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes' Observer

Revue de presse

"The most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written" (London Review of Books)

"Ingenious and proliferate plotting...a new comic debacle over every page" (The Times)

"Academic infightings, couplings, touching, funny and frightful set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before" (Sunday Telegraph)

"A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes" (Observer)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grand Central Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0446393274
• ISBN 13: 9780446393270
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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