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A review by scotchneat
A Man of Parts by David Lodge
3.0
David Lodge's take on the last days of HG Wells.
It's 1944, and Wells is hiding in Regent's Park and thinking back on his life. Lots of books, rancour, affairs, women and politics, plus some crazy family dynamics as people fight for his attention and his money.
Through time, we see Wells' rise as a popular writer and his sometimes contradictory views on society and his definite views on open relationships. And sometimes he was a bit of a dick.
I do hear more Lodge than Wells in some of the writing, as though the we are and yet are not getting a first-person account.
It's 1944, and Wells is hiding in Regent's Park and thinking back on his life. Lots of books, rancour, affairs, women and politics, plus some crazy family dynamics as people fight for his attention and his money.
Through time, we see Wells' rise as a popular writer and his sometimes contradictory views on society and his definite views on open relationships. And sometimes he was a bit of a dick.
I do hear more Lodge than Wells in some of the writing, as though the we are and yet are not getting a first-person account.