David Lodge

Retired Professor of Linguistics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It's a bother for his wife who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed with his aging father, who resents his son's attempts to help him. And then there's Alex, a student whom Desmond has …

Il professore va al congresso è un romanzo di David Lodge del 1984, selezionato tra i finalisti del Booker Prize di quell'anno. Il romanzo è la continuazione di Scambi del 1975, e pertanto i personaggi principali sono gli stessi, i professori Philip Swallow e Morris Zapp e le loro mogli, alle prese con un circuito di …

Therapy is a novel by British author David Lodge. The story concerns a successful sitcom writer, Laurence Passmore, plagued by middle-age neuroses and a failed marriage. His only problem seems to be an "internal derangement of the knee" but a mid-life crisis has struck and he is discovering angst. His familiar doses …