The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work - Softcover

Lodge, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143120204 ISBN 13: 9780143120209

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2011

Synopsis

"A trio of dazzling novels in a comic mode that the author has now made completely his own...a cause for celebration." -The New York Times Book Review

David Lodge's three delightfully sophisticated campus novels, now gathered together in one volume, expose the world of academia at its best-and its worst. In Changing Places, we meet Philip Swallow, British lecturer in English at the University of Rummidge, and the flamboyant American Morris Zapp of Euphoric State University, who participate in a professorial exchange program at the close of the tumultuous sixties. Ten years later in Small World, older but not noticeably wiser, they are let loose on the international conference circuit-along with a memorable and somewhat oversexed cast of dozens. And in Nice Work, the leftist feminist Dr. Robyn Penrose at Rummidge University is assigned to shadow the director of a local engineering firm, sparking a collision of ideologies and lifestyles that seems unlikely to foster anything other than mutual antipathy.

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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 is the prize-winning author of over a dozen novels and many works of literary criticism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0143120204
• ISBN 13: 9780143120209
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 832