QUITE A GOOD TIME TO BE BORN

'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The o nly child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother, David Lodge was four when World War II began and grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultura l change, giving him plenty to write about in his distinguished career.In this memoir of his life up to the publication of his break through ...[Read more]