Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses - Softcover

Lodge, David

3.82

8,237 ratings by Goodreads

9780140046564: Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140046569 ISBN 13: 9780140046564

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1979

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

When Phillip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sun-drenched Euphoric State University and rain-kissed University of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows...'Not since Lucky Jim has such a funny book about academic life come my way' - "Sunday Times".

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:

Anyone intrigued by differences between American and British academic institutions will find this an amusing and accurate send-up. David Lodge, portraying two American and British professors who replace one another at their respective institutions, gives greed, pettiness, and pretense full rein.

About the Author:

David Lodge has written many bestselling novels, including THINKS and NICE WORK. His books have sold well over a million copies in Penguin. Formerly Professor of English at Birmingham University, he now writes full-time. He continues to live in Birmingham.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.