Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.

General Information

ISBN : 9780099554233
Publisher : Vintage
Imprint : Vintage
Weight (g) : 0.211
Publication date : 01 May 2011
Produced in : United Kingdom
Availability date : 01 May 2011
Product Type : books

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Author : David Lodge
Bind : Paperback
Dewey classification : 823.914
Pages : 304

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A witty, charming comedy about tourism, family secrets and finding love in the most unexpected places

Author description

David Lodge's novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Thinks..., Author, Author and, most recently, Deaf Sentence. He has also written stage plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction, Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James