A MAN OF PARTS
Book ID/图书代码： 03540010B40360
English Summary/英文概要： Sequestered in his blitz-battered house on the rim of Regent’s Park, as the second war he has lived through moves into its final phase, the ailing Herbert George Wells, “H.G.” to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world, “the man who invented tomorrow”; now he feels like yesterday’s man, deserted or disparaged by readers, and depressed by the collapse of his utopian dreams for mankind.Unfolding this astonishing life story, David Lodge achieves a riveting portrait of a remarkable man who embodied as many contradictions as he had talents: a socialist who enjoyed his affluence, a Darwinian evolutionist imbued with religious idealism, an acclaimed novelist who turned against the literary novel; a feminist womaniser, sensual yet incurably romantic, irresistible and exasperating by turns to those who knew him personally, but always vitally human.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 赫伯特•喬治•威爾斯，英國著名小說家，尤以科幻小說創作聞名於世。David Lodge在此書中回顧了威爾斯跌宕起伏的一生。他曾被譽為“創造明天的人”，卻又一度如過氣作家般為被讀者拋棄和冷落。
在這部令人驚歎的人生故事中，David Lodge將一個充滿矛盾卻有著卓越天才的人物形象展現在讀者眼前，歷數了這位廣受爭議的小說家鮮為人知的過往。(Ruby)
Awards/获奖情况：`Absorbing and thoroughly enjoyable’ --The Scotsman `David Lodge’s novel goes straight to the heart of the story...it is pure fun’ --Evening Standard
`...curiously engrossing. Its power is cumulative: there are no flashes of startling moments, just a slow unfolding of friendships and feuds, plots and counter plots’ --The Daily Telegraph
a clever kind of half-genre, somewhere between fiction and fact, very much back in vogue with British writers ... funny and powerful’ --GQ
`the artistry is considerable ... the style is clear , light and graceful (Wellsian, even); yet there is often a great deal of spade work behind the scenes ... he invents entire scenes very believably’ --Times Literary Review
`I read it with entire interest and enjoyment, and learned a lot about H. G. Wells’ --The Spectator, review by Sam Leith
`Lodge is to be congratulated for having filled [Wells’s affairs] in with the relevant novelistic detail... It is a testimony to Lodge’s powers that even a reader familiar with, frankly, the ins and outs of Wells’s life will have trouble picking out the novel’s imagined moments’ --Daily Express
’[Lodge’s] Wells is a complex, humane figure, driven by a mixture of rebellion against stultifying Victorian values, belief in a better was of shaping society and callous, hypocritical self-interest. It’s an intriguing study of a time when many of the values that are bulwarks of our society were in their infancy’--Metro
`a racy...account of a life lived against the mainstream which makes one long to read Wells again’ --The Herald, Alan Taylor
`an interesting experiment and well suited to a subject who does have quite a bit of explaining to do.’--Independent on Sunday, Lesley McDowell
About the Author/作者介绍： 戴维·洛奇(David Lodge, 1935— )是一位享有世界声誉的英国小说家兼文学批评家。他从1960年发表作品,至今已有11部长篇小说问世,它们被翻译成了25种文字在全球各地出版。《小世界》等作品中译本的出版使他在中国，特别是在中国知识界广为人知。他的小说以机智诙谐的语言、有趣的构思、各种传统和新潮小说技法的灵活运用,受到了包括普通读者、知识分子和批评家在内的广大读者的喜爱。
戴维·洛奇1935年生于伦敦，先后就读于伦敦大学和伯明翰大学，获博士学位。从1960年至1987年一直在伯明翰大学英语系任教。1987年提前退休成为专业作家，但仍为伯明翰大学荣誉教授，并一直担任英国皇家文学会会员。
作为身兼二职的学者型作家，戴维·洛奇总是试图在小说中反映学术界的各种现象。他的最著名的小说几乎都是以知识分子（校园内外的教授与学生）为主要人物，以学术、文化界写作背景的。他的著名的“校园三部曲”可谓这方面的代表，这三部小说——《换位》、《小世界》和《美好的工作》具有互文关系，反映的基本上是与学术界相关的故事。
DAVID LODGE 的作品还包括《治疗》和最近的《思索》等,以及一系列的文学评论,如《小说的艺术》和《写作的技巧》。
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