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Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975
David Lodge
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Description for Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975
Paperback. Four years old when World War II began, the author grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change - giving him plenty to write about. This title illuminates a period of transition in British society, and charts the evolution of a writer whose works have become classics in his own lifetime. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
'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
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784700539
SKU
V9781784700539
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99-48
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 Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975
What one takes away from this half-memoir is the self-portrait of an extraordinarily good, wrongly modest man; a distinguished scholar, and one of the finest of current novelists
John Sutherland
Spectator
As a piece of reportage from the third quarter of the English 20th century this is a sociologist’s paradise
Guardian
An outstanding memoir... Lucid and witty
Irish Times
A fascinating and moving read
Financial Times
Quite a Good Time to be Born is a record of success, free of boasting or malice. Anyone with some knowledge of academia or the literary world will find it full of interest
Allan Massie
Scotsman
To call it quite a good book would definitely be an understatement
Andrew Lynch
Sunday Business Post
A fascinating portrayal of a writer’s development and a perceptive account of the changing society he lived in
Philippa Williams
Lady
This is a must-read for any die-hard fan… I’m looking forward to the sequel already
Rebecca Foster
Nudge
The book I’d most like to be given for Christmas’ ‘criminally underrated as a writer
Elizabeth Day
Observer
A revealing account of a novelist’s growth and of a brilliant mind freeing itself from the fetters of religion and social disadvantage.
John Carey
The Sunday Times
John Sutherland
Spectator
As a piece of reportage from the third quarter of the English 20th century this is a sociologist’s paradise
Guardian
An outstanding memoir... Lucid and witty
Irish Times
A fascinating and moving read
Financial Times
Quite a Good Time to be Born is a record of success, free of boasting or malice. Anyone with some knowledge of academia or the literary world will find it full of interest
Allan Massie
Scotsman
To call it quite a good book would definitely be an understatement
Andrew Lynch
Sunday Business Post
A fascinating portrayal of a writer’s development and a perceptive account of the changing society he lived in
Philippa Williams
Lady
This is a must-read for any die-hard fan… I’m looking forward to the sequel already
Rebecca Foster
Nudge
The book I’d most like to be given for Christmas’ ‘criminally underrated as a writer
Elizabeth Day
Observer
A revealing account of a novelist’s growth and of a brilliant mind freeing itself from the fetters of religion and social disadvantage.
John Carey
The Sunday Times