Varying Degrees of Success
  • Published: 24 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529114898
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $26.00

Varying Degrees of Success

A Memoir 1992-2020

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24 Jan 2023
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The third part of award-winning literary giant David Lodge's memoir covering 1992 to 2010 when he was developing his literary career and also making forays into television and stage work both at home and abroad.

In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers.

With Varying Degrees of Success he completes a trilogy of memoirs which describe his life from birth in 1935 to the present day, and together form a remarkable autobiography. He describes the highs and lows of being a professional creative writer in several different genres, his extensive travels around the world, and the hope and desire of writers to make a significant and positive impression on their readers and audiences.

Varying Degrees of Success provides the reader with a privileged insight into the working practices and the creative life of a major British novelist.

'Continuously engaging... Glimpses of the ambition and energy required to fuel the final stretch of his near 60-year career as the most dependable of novelist-critics' New Statesman
'Lodge is the best British novelist never to have won the Man Booker prize' The Times
  • Published: 24 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529114898
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

David Lodge

David Lodge (CBE)’s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.

He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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Also by David Lodge

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Changing Places
A Man of Parts
Writer's Luck
The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories
The Picturegoers
Quite A Good Time to be Born
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Praise for Varying Degrees of Success

Lodge is the best British novelist never to have won the Man Booker prize

The Times

One of the leading writers of his generation

Guardian

As an account of the period, Varying Degrees of Success is continuously engaging... glimpses of the ambition and energy required to fuel the final stretch of his near 60-year career as the most dependable of novelist-critics.

New Statesman