A Man of Parts by David Lodge - March 2012
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:35 pm
This book stood out immediately when the new books came in today! Nearly everything that happens in it is based on factual sources.
Isolated in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books and women. Charting his unpromising start as a draper's assistant to his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination, his immersion in socialist politics and his belief in and practice of free love, A Man of Parts is an astonishing novel of passion, ambition and controversy.
'Lodges's.. insights, energy and humour enable him to present H.G. as a man not only for his own times but for ours' Irish Times
Isolated in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books and women. Charting his unpromising start as a draper's assistant to his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination, his immersion in socialist politics and his belief in and practice of free love, A Man of Parts is an astonishing novel of passion, ambition and controversy.
'Lodges's.. insights, energy and humour enable him to present H.G. as a man not only for his own times but for ours' Irish Times