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The
2003 Award
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Thinks… by David Lodge
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Secker & Warburg ISBN 0436445026 |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Ralph
Messenger is a man who knows what he wants and generally gets it. Approaching
his fiftieth birthday, he has good reason to feel pleased with himself.
As Director of the prestigious Holt Belling Centre for Cognitive Science
at the University of Gloucester he is much in demand as a pundit on developments
in artificial intelligence and the study of human consciousness - 'the last
frontier of scientific enquiry'. He enjoys an affluent lifestyle subsidised
by the wealth of his American wife, Carrie. Known to colleagues on the conference
circuit as a womaniser and to Private Eye as a 'Media Dong', he has reached
a tacit understanding with Carrie to refrain from philandering in his own
back yard. This resolution is already weakening when he meets and is attracted to Helen Reed, a distinguished novelist still grieving for her husband who died suddenly more than a year ago. She has rented out her London house and taken up a post as writer-in-residence at Gloucester University, partly to try and get over her bereavement. Fascinated and challenged by a personality and a world-view radically at odds with her own, Helen is aroused by Ralph's bold advances, but resists on a moral principle. The stand-off between them is shattered by a series of events and discoveries that dramatically confirm the truth of Ralph's dictum, 'we can never know for certain what another person is thinking'. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| David Lodge has published ten previous novels and a novella. He has also written stage plays, screenplays and numerous works of literary criticism. His books are widely read and have been translated into twenty-five languages. He is Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where he taught for many years. He lives in Birmingham, England. |
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