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Small World

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Random House, Feb 29, 2012 - Fiction - 352 pages

Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World.

It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air...

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Very funny, a good writer - Goodreads
Desiree is a fantastic female character! - Goodreads
But it's an agreeable ending. - Goodreads
He's a very clever and insightful writer. - Goodreads
Lodge's writing is a pleasure to read. - Goodreads
Lodge's sex scenes really are very funny. - Goodreads

Review: Small World (The Campus Trilogy #2)

User Review  - David Lentz - Goodreads

Witty, clever, amusing, well narrated. Some really great lines about this discourse on English professors on summer holiday: "We are all subjects in search of objects." Layered for a story line that ... Read full review

Review: Small World (The Campus Trilogy #2)

User Review  - Jamison Spencer - Goodreads

The second part of Lodge's "Campus Trilogy." I liked this one even better, because there is much more of a focus on the scheming and desperate scrambling of the academic world. We follow a long list ... Read full review

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About the author (2012)

David Lodge's novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Thinks..., Author, Author and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written stage plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction, Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

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