Quite a good time to be born : a memoir : 1935-1975
Lodge, David, 1935-2016
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The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother, David Lodge was four when World War II began and grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change, giving him plenty to write about in his distinguished career. In this memoir of his life up to the publication of his breakthrough book, 'Changing Places', David looks back over his childhood and youth, including his undergraduate years at University College London, where he met Mary, his future wife, in freshers' week. After National Service, and two years' postgraduate research, married at last and soon a father, he struggles to make a start as both novelist and academic, until a lucky break brings him a job at the University of Birmingham and a stimulating friendship with a colleague of similar ambition, Malcolm Bradbury.
Main title:
Quite a good time to be born : a memoir : 1935-1975 / David Lodge.
Author:
Lodge, David, 1935-, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2016.London : Vintage, 2016.
Collation:
488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes index.Originally published: 2015.Originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2015.
ISBN:
9781784700539 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.914920LOD
Language:
English
BRN:
2285074