Small World

by David Lodge

Overview

Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance". From the author of the award-winning Changing Places.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780446393270
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/1991
Edition description:	Warner Books trade pbk. ed
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.89(d)

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.

What People are Saying About This

Margaret Drabble

"A highly comic novel. Brilliantly entertaining."

Frank Kermode

"A most brilliant and also the funniest novel Lodge has written."

Editorial Reviews

"A delectable comedy of bad manners...among recent portrayals of the literary establishment at work and play I can think of none so consistently entertaining or, in an odd way, so genially fair-minded as David Lodge's Small World." -- The Washington Post Book world

Joel Conarroe

"Small World is a three-ring circus of academic drollery...in this devilishely sophisticated entertainment...the reader need not be a professor of English to get the jokes. The only requirements are an appreciation of witty dialogue of more twist and turns than a Grand Prix race -- and a genuine sympathy for the foolish creatures called human beings." -- Newsday

Dan Cryer