The Picturegoers

Name: The Picturegoers
Author: David Lodge

by David Lodge

Novel about working-class cinema-goers in 1950s Britain and their lives

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David Lodge

David Lodge is a British academic novelist whose campus fiction trilogy, including Changing Places and Small World, offers brilliant satirical portraits of the academic world and the literary establishment. His readable wit made him one of the most accessible serious British novelists of his generation.

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