Changing Places / Druk 1. A Tale Of Two Campuses

David Lodge

ISBN 10: 0140046569 / ISBN 13: 9780140046564

Published by Penguin Group, 1975

About this Item

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 .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Changing Places / Druk 1. A Tale Of Two Campuses
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140046569
• ISBN 13: 9780140046564
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary fiction: general

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Synopsis

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".

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.