Quite A Good Time To Be Born
A Memoir: 1935-1975
'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’
The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother. Four years old when World War II began, David grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change - giving him plenty to write about.
Candid, witty and insightful, Quite a Good Time to be Born illuminates a period of transition in British society, and charts the evolution of a writer whose works have become classics in his own lifetime.
David Lodge is the author of ten previous novels, a trilogy of plays and a novella. He has also written stage plays screenplays and numerous works of literary criticism. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages. He is Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where he taught for many years, and lives in that city. David Lodge’s books have sold over 2.5 million copies.
Varying Degrees of Success
David Lodge
Writer's Luck
David Lodge
The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories
David Lodge
Quite A Good Time To Be Born
David Lodge
Nice Work
David Lodge
The Art of Fiction
David Lodge
Daisy Miller
Henry James
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco; Translated by William Weaver; Introduction by David Lodge
Consciousness and the Novel
David Lodge
Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by David Lodge