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Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975
David Lodge
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Description for Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975
Paperback. Four years old when World War II began, the author grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change - giving him plenty to write about. This title illuminates a period of transition in British society, and charts the evolution of a writer whose works have become classics in his own lifetime. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’
The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother. Four years old when World War II began, David grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change - giving him plenty to write about.
Candid, witty and insightful, Quite a Good Time to be Born illuminates a period of transition in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784700539
SKU
V9781784700539
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About David Lodge
David Lodge (CBE)’s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of ... Read more
Reviews for Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975
What one takes away from this half-memoir is the self-portrait of an extraordinarily good, wrongly modest man; a distinguished scholar, and one of the finest of current novelists
John Sutherland
Spectator
As a piece of reportage from the third quarter of the English 20th century this is a sociologist’s paradise
Guardian
An outstanding memoir... Lucid ... Read more
John Sutherland
Spectator
As a piece of reportage from the third quarter of the English 20th century this is a sociologist’s paradise
Guardian
An outstanding memoir... Lucid ... Read more