How Far Can You Go? - Softcover

Lodge, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140057463 ISBN 13: 9780140057461

Publisher: Penguin, 1981

Synopsis

Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and their peers were bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the way from the 1950s to the ‘70s. On the one hand there was the traditional Catholic Church, on the other the siren call of the permissive society – the appearance of the pill, the disappearance of Hell and the advent of COC (Catholics for an Open Church). It was inevitable that things would change radically. But how far could it go? How far could they go? And where would it all end? Find out in this razor-sharp novel of satiric insight and comic despair.

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Review:

"Hilarious...a magnificent book" (Graham Greene)

"Huge, 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)

Book Description:

A novel of satiric insight and comic despair dealing with the lives and loves of ten young Catholics in the 1960s and 70s.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0140057463
• ISBN 13: 9780140057461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256