At his best when he artfully blends comedy and pathos (Deaf Sentence, 2008, etc.), Lodge returns to the fictional biography genre that didn't serve him particularly well in Author, Author (2004).
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"As engrossing as Lodge's skillful structuring and bawdy badinage is, this time out he promises more than he ultimately delivers."
Literature and science battle for supremacy in this three-pronged academic satire from Lodge (Home Truths, 2000, etc.) that gets in many a good jab before running out of steam.
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"A deft bit of Lodgian satire of writers, media, and writing—with teeth as sharp as ever, but also with a heart, however little be the book, that's great, large, and full."
Adapted by the author from a stage play of his own—with the result that it's, well, a bit stagy—Lodge's effort even so offers a satiric nougat that's sweet indeed and less frothy than one might think.
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"Neither wholly journalism nor academic theorizing, The Practice of Writing offers the best of both worlds."
Having retired from theory-dominated academia in 1987, British novelist and critic Lodge (Therapy, 1995, etc.) reflects on the practice and practicalities of writing for a living in this engaging essay collection.
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"The decidedly untrendy ending—personal healing through a leap of faith—redeems an otherwise commonplace novel, one more reminiscent of Lodge's earlier fiction about Catholicism and the sexual revolution."
A superb satirist of academic life on both sides of the Atlantic (Small World, 1985; Nice Work, 1989, etc.), Lodge here turns to a subject much hashed over in American fiction: male midlife crisis and the countless trendy therapies it's engendered.
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"Narrative tricks aside, Lodge's Catholicism and his gimlet eye make him the true heir of Evelyn Waugh."
Lodge combines his past fictional interests in Catholicism (The British Museum is Falling Down, etc.) and social satire (Nice Work, etc.) to produce this always engaging and clever tale of innocents abroad.
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