Souls And Bodies - Softcover

Lodge, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140130187 ISBN 13: 9780140130188

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

The ups, downs, and exploits of a group of British Catholics--for whom the sexual revolution came a little later than it did for everybody else...

In this bracing satire, a group of university students make their way through the fifties and into the turbulent sixties and seventies. We first meet Dennis, Michael, Ruth, Polly, and the others at the altar rail of Our Lady and St. Jude, but soon enough they get caught up in the alternately hilarious and poignant preoccupations of work, marriage, sex, and babies--not always in that order.

A satirical comedy in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh, Souls and Bodies take an unblinking look at the sexual revolution and the contemporaneous upheavals in the Catholic Church. The result is as unsettlingly true as it is funny.

About this title

About the Author:

David Lodge is the author of twelve novels and a novella, including the Booker Prize finalists Small World and Nice Work. He is also the author of many works of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction and Consciousness and the Novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140130187
• ISBN 13: 9780140130188
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256