Quite a good time to be born : a memoir : 1935-1975

Author(s)

• Lodge, David

Bibliographic Information

Quite a good time to be born : a memoir : 1935-1975

David Lodge

Vintage, 2016, c2015

Note

"First published in hardback by Harvill Secker in 2015" -- T.p. verso

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother. Four years old when World War II began, David grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change - giving him plenty to write about. Candid, witty and insightful, Quite a Good Time to be Born illuminates a period of transition in British society, and charts the evolution of a writer whose works have become classics in his own lifetime.

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Details

• NCID: BB25607438
• ISBN:
  • 9781784700539
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 488 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 823.914
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Lodge, David, 1935-
  • LCSH : Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography