Quite a Good Time to Be Born - A Memoir: 1935-1975

I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother. Four years old when World War II began, David grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change - giving him plenty to write about. Candid, witty and insightful, Quite a Good Time to be Born illuminates a period of transition in British society, and charts the evolution of a writer whose works have become classics in his own lifetime.

Product details

• Authors: David Lodge, Lodge David
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9781784700539
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-053-9
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, 20th Century, Autobiography: literary, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1930 to c 1939, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1940 to c 1949, Autobiography: writers