Informationen zum Autor David Lodge (CBE)'s novels include Changing Places , Small World and Nice Work ( shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts . He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Klappentext David Lodge (CBE) s novels include Changing Places , Small World and Nice Work ( shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts . He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Zusammenfassung When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose! sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What! after all! are they supposed to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves.

Vorwort
The final novel in David Lodge's prize-winning campus trilogy, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Autorentext

David Lodge (CBE)'s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.

He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Klappentext

David Lodge (CBE) s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.

He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Zusammenfassung
When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What, after all, are they supposed to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves.