Lodge David : Paradise News

by David Lodge (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $5.45

  By the author of the bestselling Nice Work, a wry, poignant, immensely entertaining novel about a middle-aged man's late coming of age. Set in Hawaii, Lodge's enchanting portrait of an honest, dutiful Brit expands the boundaries of comedy.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $5.13

  Agnostic theologian Bernard Walsh has a professional interest in heaven. But, when he travels to Hawaii with his father, Jack, it is not in quest of a vacation paradise; it is to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister. The hand of fate and family tensions frustrate the planned reunion, however. And surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, girls looking for Mr Right, a freeloading anthropologist, and assorted tourists all determinedly pursuing their humdrum visions of paradise, Bernard finds Waikiki more like purgatory. Until, that is, he stumbles upon something he had given up hope of finding - the astonishing possibility of love...

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $5.20

  A group of British tourists set out from a congested Heathrow to their package holiday. Hawaii, and more particularly the high-rise tourist ghetto of Waikiki, is the stage on which the fortunes of this range of characters cross and occasionally collide. The author also wrote Nice Work.

• New

  Paperback
  1993

  $24.48

  The worlds of academics and of Catholicism have each provided Lodge with plentiful material for his witty satires. In Paradise News, both are combined when an anthropologist and a teacher of theology are thrown together on a packaged tour to Hawaii