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David Lodge's The British Museum is Falling Down was published in 1965 and is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. It tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.
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"Brilliantly funny" (Guardian)
"A comic tour de force...the hapless Appleby remains one of his most keenly observed characters" (Observer)
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"A comic tour de force...the hapless Appleby remains one of his most keenly observed characters" (Observer)
A brilliant satire from the Booker-shortlisted author of Deaf Sentence, about academia, religion and the perils of 'Vatican roulette'.
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- PublisherSecker
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0436255308
- ISBN 13 9780436255304
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages227
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