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Author, Author
- Narrated by: Christopher Kay
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
In David Lodge's last novel, Thinks..., the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author surrounded by his relatives and servants, most of whom have private anxieties of their own, then loops back to the 1880s, to chart the course of Henry's 'middle years', focusing particularly on his friendship with the genial Punch artist and illustrator, George Du Maurier.
By the end of the decade Henry is seriously worried by the failure of his books to 'sell', and decides to try and achieve fame and fortune as a playwright, at the same time that George Du Maurier, whose sight is failing, diversifies into writing novels. The consequences, for both men, are surprising, ironic, comic, and tragic.
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- Mr M T Hardy
- 23-06-24
What a remarkable achievement!
David Lodge, the author of numerous excellent campus novels, has departed here into a part memoir and part historical novel about the life and times of the Anglo-American literary giant Henry James. Part highly funny, part moving, part intellectually challenging, but always engrossing, this is a fantastic read. And beautifully narrated too.
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- Gary Fry
- 01-06-24
absolutely superb
Nobody writes as cleanly and beautifully as Lodge and his subject here is one for whom he clearly has much admiration. A very fine read that you won't want to end.
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- nicola spiers
- 18-09-16
fascinating
lovely engaging and witty pairs nicely with man of parts thought provoking yet a compulsive read
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