Extremely funny and sharply perceptive

Evening Standard

The poignant personal relations and the Hawaiian way of life are recorded with the sardonic perception of a latter-day Evelyn Waugh

Spectator

Further proof that Lodge is master of subtle scintillating satire

Daily Mail

Se alle

Amusing, accessible, intelligent

Financial Times

Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.
Les mer
Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii.
Les mer
Extremely funny and sharply perceptive
A witty, charming comedy about tourism, family secrets and finding love in the most unexpected places.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099554233
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
213 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
01, U, G, P, 05, 01, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

David Lodge (CBE)’s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.

He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.