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Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate picturegoers who touch and shape each other’s destinies.

Amongst them is Mark, the cynical intellectual who seeks sensuality and finds spirituality; Clare, his girlfriend, who loses faith and discovers passion; Father Kipling, the scandalized priest; and Harry, the sexually frustrated Teddy boy.

In his astutely observed first novel, David Lodge ushers in a congregation of characters whose hopes, confusions and foibles play out alongside the celluloid fantasies of the silver screen.



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Sharp and real -- Kingsley Amis
Quirky and original * Sunday Times *
The Picturegoers' appeal derives as much from the quality of the writing as for its absorption in a bygone way of life * Independent *
An excellent first novel... He has a wonderful eye for the tawdriness of our commercial world * Times *

The Picturegoers

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 28 January 2016
      ISBN-13 9781784702694
      978-1784702694
      ISBN-10 1784702692
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate picturegoers who touch and shape each other’s destinies.

      Amongst them is Mark, the cynical intellectual who seeks sensuality and finds spirituality; Clare, his girlfriend, who loses faith and discovers passion; Father Kipling, the scandalized priest; and Harry, the sexually frustrated Teddy boy.

      In his astutely observed first novel, David Lodge ushers in a congregation of characters whose hopes, confusions and foibles play out alongside the celluloid fantasies of the silver screen.



      Trade Review
      Sharp and real -- Kingsley Amis
      Quirky and original * Sunday Times *
      The Picturegoers' appeal derives as much from the quality of the writing as for its absorption in a bygone way of life * Independent *
      An excellent first novel... He has a wonderful eye for the tawdriness of our commercial world * Times *

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