Small World

by David Lodge

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140244861
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/01/1995
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

What People are Saying About This

Margaret Drabble

"A highly comic novel. Brilliantly entertaining."

Frank Kermode

"A most brilliant and also the funniest novel Lodge has written."

Editorial Reviews

Nominated for the Booker Prize, this parody of academic life follows a huge cast of scholarly characters who travel the world from one conference to another. Sleeping through seminars, scheming for better teaching positions, going to bed with fellow conferees, these men and women seem to use every organ and part of the body except the mind. ``The real fun of the book is the author's razor-sharp prose and wit, which are turned more or less good-naturedly on his fellow academics,'' PW stated. Lodge is a professor of modern English literature at the University of Birmingham. (April)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

"A delectable comedy of bad manners...among recent portrayals of the literary establishment at work and play I can think of none so consistently entertaining or, in an odd way, so genially fair-minded as David Lodge's Small World." -- The Washington Post Book world

Joel Conarroe

"Small World is a three-ring circus of academic drollery...in this devilishely sophisticated entertainment...the reader need not be a professor of English to get the jokes. The only requirements are an appreciation of witty dialogue of more twist and turns than a Grand Prix race -- and a genuine sympathy for the foolish creatures called human beings." -- Newsday

Dan Cryer