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David Lodge: confessions of a wrongly modest man

Quite a Good Time to be Born is the memoir of a good man written by a great novelist

24 January 2015

9:00 AM

24 January 2015

9:00 AM

Quite a Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935–1975 David Lodge

Harvill, pp.496, £25

This massive first instalment of a memoir starts in the quite good year the author was born, 1935, and ends with his breakthrough novel, Changing Places, in the rather better year, 1975.

A master-practitioner of narrative, Lodge chooses to write with an artful flatness which recalls Frank Kermode’s similarly self-depreciative memoir, Not Entitled.

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