How Far Can You Go? - David Lodge

David Lodge, not to everyone's tastes I know. But you must know who he is? Former Professor of English literature at Birmingham University, writer of critically acclaimed work, such as Changing Places and Small World and a leading theorist on literature and literary criticism. (Although he rather snubs his nose at the pompous crowd.) His most recent book, Thinks was fantastic, although still including his main theme of a man in a midlife sexual crisis. In fact it has dawned on me with prompting, that I am yet to read any of his work that does not include some form of a "man in crisis". However, what can be called a sideshow tends to add to the comical ...