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"APRIL is the cruellest month." Persse McGarrigle quoted silently to himself, gazing through grimy windowpanes at the unseasonable snow crusting the laws and flowerbeds of the Rummidge campus.
"APRIL is the cruellest month." Persse McGarrigle quoted silently to himself, gazing through grimy windowpanes at the unseasonable snow crusting the laws and flowerbeds of the Rummidge campus.
About this book
English professors are on the loose. In this second installment in the delightful trilogy of academic satires, the sun has not quite set on the sexual revolution, while political correctness has not yet reared its humorless head.
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FictionCriticsCollege teachersLarge type booksFiction, generalBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
First published 1984About the author
David Lodge
28 January 1935 – 1 January 2025
David Lodge (born January 28, 1935, London, England—died January 1, 2025, Birmingham, England) was an English novelist, literary critic, playwright, and editor known chiefly for his satiric novels about academic life, especially the Campus trilogy: Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984), and Nice Work (1988). Lodge was educated at University College, London (B.A., 1955; M.A., 1959), and at the University of Birmingham (Ph.D., 1967). His early novels, known mostly in England, included The Picturegoers (1960), about a group of Roman Catholics living in London; Ginger, You’re Barmy (1962), Lodge’s novelistic response to his army service in the…
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