'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England... The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother.

Binding: Paperback;512 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: Biography: general; Weight: 524 g; Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 33

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