Small World by David Lodge

'Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle, the lovely Angelica - the jet - propelled academics are on the move, in the air, on the make, in Small World Academic infightings, couplings, touching, funny and frightful, set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before' Sunday Telegraph 'A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes' Anthony Thwaite in the Observer 'Ingenious and proliferate plotting ... a new comic debacle over every page' The Times. 'The most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written' Frank Kermode in the London Review of Books. This 1984 Penguin Books Paperback is in fair condition.

ISBN: 9780140072655 SKU: 1279367 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1279367
Location: Fiction