How Far Can You Go?
winner of the whitbread book of the year award 1980
$32.16
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2011
Summary
How Far Can You Go?: A Catholic Comedy of Errors
A novel of satiric insight and comic despair, charting the lives and loves of ten young Catholics navigating the turbulent decades of the 1960s and 70s.
Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian, and their cohort are on an inevitable collision course with reality, poised to shed their spiritual innocence—and their virginities—as they journey from the hallowed halls of university to the realities of marriages, families, careers, and the in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099554141 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099554143 |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
| Author: | David Lodge |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 183g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 18mm |
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Hilarious…a magnificent book
Hilarious…a magnificent book – Graham GreeneHuge, bitterly funny and superbly presented montage of the false nostrums that assailed Christianity like worms * Sunday Times *Funny, sad, knowledgeable * Irish Times *Brilliant and intricate black comedy * Time Out *
About The Author
David Lodge
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.
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