{"product_id":"small-world-9780099554165","title":"Small World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Lodge (CBE)'s novels include \u003ci\u003eChanging Places\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmall World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNice Work (\u003c\/i\u003eshortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eA Man of Parts\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eIngenious and proliferate plotting...a new comic debacle over every page * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eAcademic infightings, couplings, touching, funny and frightful set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eA wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes * Observer *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732292481367,"sku":"9780099554165","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099554165.jpg?v=1719996294","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/small-world-9780099554165","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}