The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories
The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and criticsA nameless man who has fallen out of love with life, refuses to get out of bed, with unexpected consequences. A sociologist recalls how he learned his first and formative lesson about the oppressive power of capitalism selling newspapers and magazines up and down the platforms of Waterloo station. Some years before the era of the Pill and the Permissive Society, four university friends travel to the Mediterranean for their first holiday together, where the climate is sultry and sex is on everyone's mind. And a strong-willed young woman defies adverse circu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4735-4633-2
- EAN: 9781473546332
- Produktnummer: 20669075
- Verlag: Vintage Digital
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'388 KB
Über den Autor
David Lodge (CBE)'s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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