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The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories

Author: David Lodge  

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Shrewd, funny and delightfully entertaining, this is the first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and critics

The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and criticsA nameless man who has fallen out of love with life, refuses to get out of bed, with unexpected consequences.

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Shrewd, funny and delightfully entertaining, this is the first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and critics

The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and criticsA nameless man who has fallen out of love with life, refuses to get out of bed, with unexpected consequences.

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Shrewd, funny and delightfully entertaining, this is the first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and criticsThe first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and criticsA nameless man who has fallen out of love with life, refuses to get out of bed, with unexpected consequences. A sociologist recalls how he learned his first and formative lesson about the oppressive power of capitalism selling newspapers and magazines up and down the platforms of Waterloo station. Some years before the era of the Pill and the Permissive Society, four university friends travel to the Mediterranean for their first holiday together, where the climate is sultry and sex is on everyone's mind. And a strong-willed young woman defies adverse circumstances to pursue the perfect wedding at all costs.These are some of the characters that populate David Lodge's shrewd, funny and delightfully entertaining short stories, collected here for the very first time. What prompted their publication in this form is a short story in itself, told by the author in his Foreword.LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2017

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Awards

Long-listed for The Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2017 (UK)

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Critic Reviews

“His down-to-earth stories have a nice blend of the worldly and the ingenious.”

-- Phil Baker Sunday Times
David Lodge's short stories are as witty and surprising as his novels The Times
Fresh and timely...well-observed collection that one wishes was twice as long Financial Times
Lodge’s preoccupations in these stories tend to be masculine, though not exclusively. The stories deal with the tumult and mysteries of relationships in a style at once serious and farcical… This collection shows Lodge at his most playfully imaginative. Independent

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About the Author

David Lodge (CBE)'s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.He 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.

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing | Vintage
Published
15th September 2016
Pages
176
ISBN
9781784704681

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