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Thinks... by David Lodge
Thinks... by David Lodge





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 worldview radically at odds with her own, Helen is aroused by Ralph's bold advances, but resists on moral principle. 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 the sudden death of her husband more than a year ago.

Thinks... by David Lodge

He enjoys an affluent lifestyle subsidised by the wealth of his American wife, Carrie.

Thinks... by David Lodge

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 study of human consciousness - 'the last frontier of scientific inquiry'. Approaching his fiftieth birthday, he has good reason to feel pleased with himself.

Thinks... by David Lodge

"Ralph Messenger is a man who knows what he wants and generally gets it.







Thinks... by David Lodge