The three novels by themselves are titled Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work.
This omnibus lines up David Lodge's trio of brilliantly co...
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Jan 17, 2012
Anne
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What fun to read all of these novels back-to-back (although I haven't technically gotten to Nice Work yet.) Lodge does a wonderful job of capturing the time he is living in. Reading Changing Places right after Alison Lurie's "War Between the Tates" was a treat. Both are campus novels featuring academics in their 40's and set in the rapidly changing world of 1969. Superficially, Lodge focuses on the difference between the UK and US, where Lurie focuses on the difference between men
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Jan 17, 2012
Kate
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I read all three of these novels separately and found them very pleasurable. The trick to each is that people of very different persuasions and personalities are thrown together-- and each one winds up learning from and being influenced by the other. The characters are basically likeable (even as you're bound to find one of them more congenial to your own world view) and the changes they undergo seem plausible.
Does the pleasure in reading come from this sense that we all might become wiser More...
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Jun 23, 2009
Jeff
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Really a stunningly cute trio of stories exploring a topic long overdue; the bad behavior of academics. Lodge has a real gift for seamlessly integrating the ideas and theories that the characters live and breathe into the stories themselves, in such a way as to provide good summaries of literary theory in the post-war era and also at providing a microcosmic snapshot of postwar history itself.
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