Quite A Good Time to be Born
Author: Lodge, David
ISBN: 9781784700539
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 28 Mar 2016
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback / softback
A memoir from one of BritainP#39;s finest novelists and critics.
Plt;bPgt;P#39;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...P#8217; Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;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. Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Candid, witty and insightful, Plt;iPgt;Quite a Good Time to be BornPlt;/iPgt; illuminates a period of transition in British society, and charts the evolution of a writer whose works have become classics in his own lifetime.
ISBN: 9781784700539
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 28 Mar 2016
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback / softback
A memoir from one of BritainP#39;s finest novelists and critics.
Plt;bPgt;P#39;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...P#8217; Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;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. Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Candid, witty and insightful, Plt;iPgt;Quite a Good Time to be BornPlt;/iPgt; illuminates a period of transition in British society, and charts the evolution of a writer whose works have become classics in his own lifetime.
