by David Lodge
"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed".- Robert Louis Stevenson - My Shadow. "O'er grassy dale, and lowland sceneCome see,...
Had I known Nice Work was the last book of a trilogy of campus novels, I would have started in the right order. But obviously I hadn't and I simply chose it because of some feeling of frustration you have when you see full shelves with one author's books and you wonder how come he's so famous and yo...
Annoying git meets termagant. They hate each other, they...oh what's the difference, everyone knows what happens, and frankly who the hell cares? I detested this book, I thought the author's pseudo-arch (how's that for a horrid combination?) faux Firbank twaddle was the literary equivalent of thoraz...
In this witty novel, Lodge engineers a confrontation between Robyn, a young, left-wing female literary theorist, and Vic, an older, conservative, senior manager type. There's a government initiative where Robyn is supposed to "shadow" Vic one day a week, an arrangement that initially neither of them...
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