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Description

Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance". From the author of the award-winning... read more

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First Sentence

"APRIL is the cruellest month." Persse McGarrigle quoted silently to himself, gazing through grimy windowpanes at the unseasonable snow crusting the laws and flowerbeds of the Rummidge campus.

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  1. David Lodge (Author)
 

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