A Man of Parts

By: David Lodge

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Paperback | 12 January 2012 | Edition Number 1

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576 Pages

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Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent’s 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.

Industry Reviews

"This is his best book in years: sprawling, funny, touching, a near-perfect fusion of story and scholarship" Mail on Sunday "Excellent... scrupulous and scholarly... It bounds along terrifically" Guardian "Lodge's robust approach, his insights, energy and humour, enable him to present HG as a man not only for his own times but also for ours" -- Patricia Craig Irish Times "Absorbing and thoroughly enjoyable" -- Allan Massie Scotsman "David Lodge's novel goes straight to the heart of the story... It is pure fun" -- Claire Harman Evening Standard

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