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Hardcover ISBN: 9781408805657 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC reviewed by Roy Peachey The Misogynist is well-written, psychologically astute and wryly amusing. It also has a clever twist at the end which I won’t give away here. However, what it is not is the straightforward story of a misogynist. Misogyny is there but it is not the [...]
reviewed by John Murphy Home Truths is a bite-sized country manor comedy of manners adapted from the novelist’s stage play. Its theatrical origins are apparent in the three-act structure, the closed-in location (a country cottage), and the dialogue-heavy scenes. Considering how closely it resembles the script for a stage production, one wonders why Lodge felt [...]
reviewed by John Murphy “It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.” – G.K. Chesterton Christianity passes the test, as the wry novels of David Lodge attest. (The riots and righteous fury inspired by a Danish caricature of the prophet Muhammad a few years ago….Well, that’s another story). The [...]
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 [...]
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