Published by Harvill Secker, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Author:
David Lodge
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781846555534
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EAN: 9781846555534
Published: 5 May 2011
Helen Reed, a novelist in her early forties, still grieving for her husband who died suddenly a year before, is a visiting teacher of creative writing at a university where Ralph Messenger, a cognitive scientist with a special interest in Artificial Intelligence and an incorrigible womaniser, is director of a prestigious research institute.
He is an atheist and a materialist; she is a Catholic who has lost her faith but still yearns for the consolations of religion. Ralph is attracted to Helen and she, in spite of her principles, to him. They argue about the nature of human consciousness, and the different ways it is examined in science and literature, as she resists with weakening resolution Ralph's efforts to seduce her.
David Lodge has distilled the story of his acclaimed novel Thinks... to create a witty and absorbing drama about a moral, emotional and intellectual struggle between two exceptional people.
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Masterly... The story of an argumentative, and erotic, campus encounter between a philandering cognitive scientist and a recently bereaved novelist... an impassioned intellectual and emotional duel
- Guardian
On THINKS: 'David Lodge yokes together two warhorses, the campus novel and the novel of adultery, and uses them to pull an old debate - the rival claims of science and art - to tell the truth about life
- Observer
Lodge's wit... like that of Wodehouse, froths around and out of characters
- Spectator
One of the leading comic writers of his generation
- Guardian
David Lodge's novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Author, Author, Deaf Sentence and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written stage plays and screenplays, and several works of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction, Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
