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The Man Who Would't Get Up

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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 Further information tbc. Zusammenfassung The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and critics A nameless man who has fallen out of love with life, refuses to get out of bed, with unexpected consequences. A sociologist recalls how he learned his first and formative lesson about the oppressive power of capitalism selling newspapers and magazines up and down the platforms of Waterloo station. Some years before the era of the Pill and the Permissive Society, four university friends travel to the Mediterranean for their first holiday together, where the climate is sultry and sex is on everyone’s mind. And a strong-willed young woman defies adverse circumstances to pursue the perfect wedding at all costs. These are some of the characters that populate David Lodge’s shrewd, funny and delightfully entertaining short stories, collected here for the very first time. What prompted their publication in this form is a short story in itself, told by the author in his Foreword. LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2017

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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.


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His down-to-earth stories have a nice blend of the worldly and the ingenious. Phil Baker Sunday Times

Product details

Authors David Lodge, Lodge David
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 15.09.2016
 
EAN 9781784704681
ISBN 978-1-78470-468-1
No. of pages 176
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
Series VINTAGE BOOKS
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)

FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Humorous / General, Short Stories, FICTION / Satire, Humour, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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