Author: David Lodge
Title: Small World
Description: Penguin Books 1984 Paperback, 339pp. 'Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle, the lovely Angelica - the jet - propelled academics are on the move, in the air, on the make, in Small World Academic infightings, couplings, touching, funny and frightful, set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before' Sunday Telegraph 'A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes' Anthony Thwaite in the Observer 'Ingenious and proliferate plotting . a new comic debacle over every page' The Times. 'The most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written' Frank Kermode in the London Review of Books. (ISBN: 9780140072655). Fair.

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