The narrator in this novel based on Lodge's own life is a recently retired linguistics professor of an English university with an elderly father and a wife who has an interior design shop. His life is complicated by a young American woman student preparing a thesis who asks for his help. The practical problems of deafness, aging and old age are described with insight and understanding and at times made the subject of comedy. Good stuff!
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 48 November 2008 ) |
