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      A Man of Parts

      by David Lodge
      Published
      Sep 2011
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      Historical Historical
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      448
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      Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park hours in 1944, the ailing H.G. Wells looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a comic touch; his plunge into socialist politics; his belief in free love and energetic practice of it.

      Unfolding this astonishing story, David Lodge depicts a man as contradictory as he was talented: a socialist who enjoyed his affluence, an acclaimed novelist who turned against the literary novel; a feminist womanizer, sensual yet incurably romantic, irresistible and exasperating by turns, but always vitally human.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      Dec 2012 Penguin ISBN13 9780143122098 ISBN10 0143122096
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      First Edition Sep 2011 Viking ISBN13 9780670022984 ISBN10 0670022985
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      May 2011 Random House ISBN13 9781846554964 ISBN10 1846554969
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