Small World - Softcover

David Lodge

3.89

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140105115 ISBN 13: 9780140105117

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1988

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Takes a comic look at today's world of itinerant literary scholars, in which a no-holds-barred quest for an especially desired academic prize prompts a group of professors to less-than-professional behavior

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Review:

The unbridled greed, pettiness, buffoonery and intellectual gobbledygook in the world of higher scholarship are the topics of this thorough and thoroughly funny roman a' English department. It's interesting for a couple of reasons, aside from its humor and spoofiness: it's an insider's view of things -- always the best kind -- and it takes its old-fashioned time telling a story, complete with reasonable digressions about the state of literary criticism and what may or may not be a realistic view of the academic life.

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.

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