The final volume of David Lodge’s witty Campus Trilogy is set around the unlikely relationship between a senior manager and a left-wing academic
Small World
Written by David Lodge
- Shortlisted
- The Booker Prize 1984
- Published by Secker & Warburg
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In the second book of his ‘campus’ trilogy, David Lodge chronicles the pursuit of passion and the search for the holy grail of academic perks
Lustful Persse McGarrigle flies all over the world in pursuit of the beautiful Angelica as she goes from university conference to university conference, in an academic merry-go-round that culminates at the annual Modern Language Association convention in New York. Almost equally emotionally charged, however, is the political jockeying among professors and critics for the UNESCO chair of Literary Theory, which involves no work and pays $100,000. Tax-free.
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Despite believing that ‘a committee is a blunt instrument of literary criticism’, the novelist David Lodge chaired a group of judges that came up with a roundly applauded winner
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The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth. But everything changes when Timothy's glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg.
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