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A Man of Parts
David Lodge
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Description for A Man of Parts
Paperback. A man of contradictions. A man of passion. A man of the future. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H G' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. This title is a novel of passion, ambition and controversy. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 410.
A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS.
A MAN OF PASSION.
A MAN OF THE FUTURE.
Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Charting his unpromising start as a draper's assistant to his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination, his immersion in socialist politics and his belief in and practice of free love, A Man of Parts is an astonishing novel of passion, ambition and controversy.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099556084
SKU
V9780099556084
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99-99
About David Lodge
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.
Reviews for A Man of Parts
This is his best book in years: sprawling, funny, touching, a near-perfect fusion of story and scholarship
Mail on Sunday
Excellent... scrupulous and scholarly... It bounds along terrifically
Guardian
Lodge's robust approach, his insights, energy and humour, enable him to present HG as a man not only for his own times but also for ours
Patricia Craig
Irish Times
Absorbing and thoroughly enjoyable
Allan Massie
Scotsman
David Lodge's novel goes straight to the heart of the story... It is pure fun
Claire Harman
Evening Standard
Absorbing
Patrick Parrinder
Financial Times
A clever kind of half-genre, somewhere between fiction and fact, very much back in vogue with British writers ...funny and powerful
GQ
Curiously engrossing. Its power is cumulative: there are no flashes of startling moments, just a slow unfolding of friendships and feuds, plots and counter plots
Claudia FitzHerbert
Daily Telegraph
The artistry is considerable... the style is clear , light and graceful (Wellsian, even); yet there is often a great deal of spade work behind the scenes... He invents entire scenes very believably
Times Literary Review
I read it with entire interest and enjoyment, and learned a lot about H. G. Wells
Sam Leith
Spectator
Mail on Sunday
Excellent... scrupulous and scholarly... It bounds along terrifically
Guardian
Lodge's robust approach, his insights, energy and humour, enable him to present HG as a man not only for his own times but also for ours
Patricia Craig
Irish Times
Absorbing and thoroughly enjoyable
Allan Massie
Scotsman
David Lodge's novel goes straight to the heart of the story... It is pure fun
Claire Harman
Evening Standard
Absorbing
Patrick Parrinder
Financial Times
A clever kind of half-genre, somewhere between fiction and fact, very much back in vogue with British writers ...funny and powerful
GQ
Curiously engrossing. Its power is cumulative: there are no flashes of startling moments, just a slow unfolding of friendships and feuds, plots and counter plots
Claudia FitzHerbert
Daily Telegraph
The artistry is considerable... the style is clear , light and graceful (Wellsian, even); yet there is often a great deal of spade work behind the scenes... He invents entire scenes very believably
Times Literary Review
I read it with entire interest and enjoyment, and learned a lot about H. G. Wells
Sam Leith
Spectator