Monday, 6 June 2016

The Picturegoers - David Lodge

Love and brute desire...cynicism and faith- a compassionate, realistic and even shocking novel of urban Britain today


PAN BOOKS G586
FIRST PAN EDITION 1962
LONDON, UK
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1960 BY MCGIBBON & KEE LTD
COVER ART BY OWEN

THE PALLADIUM, Brickley...

To this seedy Saturday night Mecca came:

MARK - who mapped out a girls's body and knew just how far she would let him go...but had, too, a burning need to regain his faith.

CLARE - who helped restore it...but found her own beliefs undermined by a new-found passion.

HARRY - who wanted power over gangs and tarts...yet wilted under insults of an old woman.

FATHER KIPLING - angered by the bosom flaunting crudity of modern life...but too ineffectual to influence his own congregation.

And so many others-each of them seeking, searching, questing...

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