This very funny book, written in 1962, gives a summing up of a life of a man caught up between work, love,catholic religion t the end of the Fifties.But -I read the book somewhere in the 90's, still not out of time! ( )

A comic novel all about birth control - or indeed the lack of it and its effects. The main character, Adam Appleby doesn't live in the garden of Eden; he's trying to get to grips with his thesis but only managed to worry about his ever expanding family.
The British Museum is where he goes to study, and each chapter is neatly prefaced with a literary quotation about it. The edition I have has an added afterword by the author, and this is where I discovered how badly read I am on modern classics, as Lodge has included ten different passages of literary pastiche including Lawrence, Joyce, Greene, Woolf and Hemingway et al. Looking back, I think I can locate some of them, but I will have to re-read some time in the future, (only being familiar with Greene, and having recently read my first Hemingway). Great fun though even if you don't get all the jokes. ( )

très drôle.

Funny book about the absurdities of Roman Catholic teaching and satire on the chesterbelloc style (at their worst) ( )

A whimsical look at British academic life in the 60s. The protagonist is a Catholic doctoral student who can't seem to finish his dissertation and can't seem to stop getting his wife pregnant. And, of course, with four kids and not much of a job, he's struggling for money... ( )