David Lodge
Tuesday 19th April 2011, 8pm
Venue
The Bookshop, Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath, BA1 1NG
The Bookshop, Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath, BA1 1NG
Start Time
8pm
8pm
David Lodge’s new novel is a moving, funny and masterful look at the life of H.G. Wells. Sitting in his blitz-battered Regent’s Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women.
Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world, ‘the man who invented tomorrow’; now he feels like yesterday’s man, deserted by readers and depressed by the collapse of his utopian dreams.
A Man of Parts is an astonishing novel, depicting a man as contradictory as he was talented.