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Home Truths : a Novella
de David Lodge
Penguin books, 1999, 142 p. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm.
Adrian Ludlow, a novelistwith a distinguished reputation and a book on the A-level syllabus, is seeking obscurity, with his wife Eleanor, in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path. Their old university friend sam sharp,now a successful screenwriter, drops in on the way to Los Angeles, fuming over a vicious profile of himself by Rottweiler interviewer Fanny Tarrant in a Sunday newspaper. Together the two mendecide to take revenge on the journalist, though Adrian is risking what he values most : his privacy. A delicious comic novella that examines our culture of celebrity and the conflict between the solitary activity of writing and the demands of the media circus.
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