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How Far Can You Go
David Lodge
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Description for How Far Can You Go
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
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?
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?
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099554141
SKU
9780099554141
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Ref
99-1
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 ... Read more
Reviews for How Far Can You Go
Hilarious...a magnificent book
Graham Greene Huge, bitterly funny and superbly presented montage of the false nostrums that assailed Christianity like worms
Sunday Times
Funny, sad, knowledgeable
Irish Times
Brilliant and intricate black comedy
Time Out
Graham Greene Huge, bitterly funny and superbly presented montage of the false nostrums that assailed Christianity like worms
Sunday Times
Funny, sad, knowledgeable
Irish Times
Brilliant and intricate black comedy
Time Out