Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regents Park hours in 1944, the ailing H.G. Wells looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a comic touch; his plunge into socialist politics; his belief in free love and energetic practice of it.
Unfolding this astonishing story, David Lodge depicts a man as contradictory as he was talented: a socialist who enjoyed his affluence, an acclaimed novelist who turned against the literary novel; a feminist womanizer, sensual yet incurably romantic, irresistible and exasperating by turns, but always vitally human.
From the Hardcover edition.
A Man of Parts
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- UPC:
- 9780099556084
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 2012-02-06
- Release Date:
- 2012-02-06
- Author:
- David Lodge
- Language:
- english
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