A Man of Parts
Author(s): David Lodge
Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world, 'the man who invented tomorrow'; now he feels like yesterday's man.
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A moving, funny and masterful novel about the life of H.G. Wells - writer, thinker, lover and man of genius.
"David Lodge's novel goes straight to the heart of the story... it is pure fun." - Claire Harman, "Evening Standard" "Curiously engrossing. Its power is cumulative: There are no flashes of startling moments, just a slow unfolding of friendships and feuds, plots and counter plots." - Claudia FitzHerbert, "Daily Telegraph"
David Lodge's novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Thinks..., Author, Author and, most recently, Deaf Sentence. He has also written stage plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction, Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 01 January 2012
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : David Lodge
- : Paperback
- : 312
- : 823.914
- : 576
