The Picturegoers
David Lodge
- Welcome
- to
- the
- Palladium,
- Brickley.
- Once
- the
- grandest
- music-hall
- south
- of
- the
- river,
- now
- its
- peeling
- foyer
- is
- home
- to
- stale
- popcorn,
- a
- depressed
- manager,
- and
- a
- cast
- of
- disparate
- picturegoers
- who
- touch
- and
- shape
- each
- other’s
- destinies.Amongst
- them
- is
- Mark,
- the
- cynical
- intellectual
- who
- seeks
- sensuality
- and
- finds
- spirituality;
- Clare,
- his
- girlfriend,
- who
- loses
- faith
- and
- discovers
- passion;
- Father
- Kipling,
- the
- scandalized
- priest;
- and
- Harry,
- the
- sexually
- frustrated
- Teddy
- boy.In
- his
- astutely
- observed
- first
- novel,
- David
- Lodge
- ushers
- in
- a
- congregation
- of
- characters
- whose
- hopes,
- confusions
- and
- foibles
- play
- out
- alongside
- the
- celluloid
- fantasies
- of
- the
- silver screen.
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