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David Lodge

"David Lodge is internationally celebrated as a novelist and critic, and most recently as a writer for television. This study examines his work from The Picturergoers (1960) to Therapy (1995). There are chapters on Lodge's early, mainly realistic, fiction; on his trilogy of campus novels, Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work; and on his interest, sometimes light-hearted, sometimes deeply serious, in Catholicism, notably in How Far Can You Go? and Paradise News. Lodge's practice as a novelist has been paralleled over the years by his work as a literary critic and theorist who is keenly interested in fictional form. There is an account of his critical writing, and the study concludes with an assessment of Lodge's achievement as a best-selling novelist with intellectual interests in criticism and religion, who has successfully brought together observant realism, metafictional consciousness and dazzling comedy."--Jacket.

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