The Picturegoers
Book formats
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Paperback 1 388руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- David Lodge
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Language
- english
- Release date
- January 28, 2016
- ISBN
- 978-1-78470-269-4
- GTIN
- 9781784702694
- Weight, g
- 196
About
Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate picturegoers who touch and shape each other’s destinies.
Amongst them is Mark, the cynical intellectual who seeks sensuality and finds spirituality; Clare, his girlfriend, who loses faith and discovers passion; Father Kipling, the scandalized priest; and Harry, the sexually frustrated Teddy boy.
In his astutely observed first novel, David Lodge ushers in a congregation of characters whose hopes, confusions and foibles play out alongside the celluloid fantasies of the silver screen.