Small World: An Academic Romance - Softcover

David Lodge

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9780140105117: Small World: An Academic Romance

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140105115 ISBN 13: 9780140105117

Publisher: Penguin, 1988

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Takes a comic look at today's world of itinerant literary scholars, in which a no-holds-barred quest for an especially desired academic prize prompts a group of professors to less-than-professional behavior

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Review:

"The most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written" (London Review of Books)

"Ingenious and proliferate plotting...a new comic debacle over every page" (The Times)

"Academic infightings, couplings, touching, funny and frightful set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before" (Sunday Telegraph)

"A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes" (Observer)

Book Description:

The second novel of David Lodge's hilarious campus trilogy - shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984.

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