The British Museum is Falling Down
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The British Museum is Falling Down by David Lodge
A comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. It tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.
David Lodge was born in London in 1935. He taught in the English department of Birmingham University from 1960 until 1987, when he retired to write full time. As well as many works of literary criticism including the bestselling The Art of Fiction, Lodge has written a dozen novels and has been characterized variously as a Catholic novelist, a campus novelist and a comic novelist. Small World and Nice Work were both made into highly acclaimed tv drama series. His most recent novel was the highly successful Deaf Sentence. He continues to live in Birmingham.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141046693 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141046694 |
| Title | The British Museum is Falling Down |
| Author | David Lodge |
| Series | Penguin Decades |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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