Changing Places
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities’ Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students,...
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When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities’ Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099554172 (0099554178)
Publish date: April 7th 2011
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Academic,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Academia,
Campus
Series: The Campus Trilogy (#1)
Is humour a fragile or robust artform? A discussion took place here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/91238230 and one could not hope for a more apt example of the issues involved than this book. Paul kicked it off with the comment that ‘Comedy may be one of the frailer arts because it depends ...
Incredibly amusing, alert, witty but unpretentious at the same time, though, being part of a campus novel trilogy, someone might expect a lot of academia breathing through its pages. The plot is quite obvious, due to the title, Philip (British) and Morris (American) are supposed to exchange places a...
Highly entertaining novel, very witty. Sometimes I had the feeling of everything being too artificially written down and hence the fictional situations too coincidental. But still, Lodge knows how to write and entertain his readers.
One of the advantages of a reading group is that you are forced (really much too harsh a word) to read books you’ve always meant to and that many people have recommended but that you’ve just never gotten around to. Such was the case with David Lodge’s Changing Places. What a delight. This is one of ...
Readable but boring. The characters are flat and the strings of the author are always visible. There is no imagination and no plot—-just a dude trying to be clever.
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