How Far Can You Go

Informationen zum Autor David Lodge (CBE)’s novels include Changing Places , Small World and Nice Work ( shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts . He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Klappentext Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that follow. On the one hand there's Sex and then the Pill, on the other there is the traditional Catholic Church. In this razor-sharp novel David Lodge exposes the pressures that assailed Catholics everywhere within a more permissive society, and voices their eternal question: how far can you go? Zusammenfassung Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that follow.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David Lodge, Lodge David
• Verlag: Vintage UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.04.2011
• EAN: 9780099554141
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955414-1
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Serie: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; England, FICTION / Religious, FICTION / Satire, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, Satirical fiction and parodies, Relating to Christian people and groups, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century