The wit and intellectual verve of one of our most distinguished writers is evident on every page of this volume of essays, in which he tackles writers including Norman Mailer, J.D. Salinger, D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce; visits America and Poland; discusses Catholicism, the structuralists, The Dam Busters; and, explores his own attitudes to the craft of writing.

Author Biography

David Lodge's novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Thinks..., Author, Author and, most recently, Deaf Sentence. He has also written stage plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction, Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.