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Small World
Small World
Author: David Lodge
Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance". From the author of the award-winning Changing Places.
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ISBN-13: 9780446393270
ISBN-10: 0446393274
Publication Date: 11/1/1991
Pages: 385
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Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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They're academics, but their lives are anything but staid and stodgy. There's Persse, a young Galahad of a professor searching for his ideal woman; Morris Zapp, the American post-structuralist touting his latest paper: "Textuality as Striptease"; Fulvia Morgana, the Maserati-driving; anti-bourgeouis Italian professor; not to mention the mysterious, black-glovers Siegfried von Turpitz, among others. From Chicago to Ankara to Tokyo, they're chasing graduate students, seducing each other's spousesm and questing for the truth, good times, and the one glittering prize they all desire.


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