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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2011
Summary
A 1950s South London schoolboy’s summer holiday with his sister in Germany becomes an unforgettable rite of passage.
The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy’s early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg.
Kath, who left home long ago to work for the American army, introduces her sixteen-year-old brother to a lifestyle that i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099554158 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099554151 |
| Author: | David Lodge |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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One of the best novelists of his generation
One of the best novelists of his generation – Anthony Burgess * Observer *His novels engender a flowing sense of fun * Spectator *Lodge has brilliantly dramatized a kind of Anglo-American encounter. To have made so well-ordered and humanely engaging a work of fiction in the process is a striking achievement * Times Literary Supplement *
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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