Souls and Bodies, by David Lodge
Posted in Comedy/Satire, Literary on Feb 8th, 2007
Snakes and Ladders
David Lodge’s Souls and Bodies won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1980. Whether it deserved such an honor or not, it is certainly a well-crafted account of British Catholicism circa the era of Vatican II.
Lodge charts the spiritual growth (“decay” might be more accurate) of a group of British [...]