Paradise News
$45.96
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2011
Summary
A witty, charming comedy about tourism, family secrets and finding love in the most unexpected places.Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack’s dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise.Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospita…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099554233 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099554232 |
| Author: | David Lodge |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2011 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
Extremely funny and sharply perceptive
Extremely funny and sharply perceptive * Evening Standard *The poignant personal relations and the Hawaiian way of life are recorded with the sardonic perception of a latter-day Evelyn Waugh * Spectator *Further proof that Lodge is master of subtle scintillating satire * Daily Mail *Amusing, accessible, intelligent * Financial Times *
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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