David Lodge
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.75 | 1937 Users | 108 Reviews
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| Title | : | Paradise News |
| Author | : | David Lodge |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | 1993 by Penguin (first published 1991) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Novels |
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Paradise, tourist style. It's a very long way from home.Bernard Walsh is in Hawaii on family business, escorting his querulous father to the bedside of a long-forgotten aunt. His mission transports him from quiet obscurity in Rummridge, England, to a lush tropical playground, from cloistered solitude into the unfamiliar company of package tourists: honeymooners; young women looking for Mr. Nice; families nuclear and fissile. But it is the island itself that holds the most astonishing surprises, as an accidental encounter opens up to Bernard possibilities of life, and love, never dreamed of in his normally overcast habitat. Paradise News is an enchanting--and very funny--portrait of the late flowering of an honest man.Itemize Books In Pursuance Of Paradise News
| Original Title: | Paradise News |
| ISBN: | 0140165215 (ISBN13: 9780140165210) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Bernard Walsh |
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Ratings: 3.75 From 1937 Users | 108 ReviewsWrite-Up Appertaining To Books Paradise News
A proper character story, with natural and easy humour from Lodge. No high concepts or huge drama needed for us to care about what happens. It contains interesting, and balanced, reflections on tourism and religion, and elements of camp and sexuality.I was wondering round the park taking in the running styles of the dogs and the man practising Tai Chi with a pair of wooden cutlasses and who may or may not have been arrested shortly after by the plain clothes police I saw putting on stab proof vests by the park entrances and I thought that I probably haven't read enough nineteenth century English literature to have much to say about this nice middle aged book in which a Priest comes to terms with his loss of faith and succeeds in finding love
Excellent! Living in France I appreciate British humour very much ;-)
I was wondering round the park taking in the running styles of the dogs and the man practising Tai Chi with a pair of wooden cutlasses and who may or may not have been arrested shortly after by the plain clothes police I saw putting on stab proof vests by the park entrances and I thought that I probably haven't read enough nineteenth century English literature to have much to say about this nice middle aged book in which a Priest comes to terms with his loss of faith and succeeds in finding love
What did I learn from Paradise News?Several things. Now I can nonchalantly use terms like "lei", "pupu" and "moo-moo" in any conversation about Hawaii. Not that I had or will have many. Apropos, don't you have the impression that Hawaii are out of fashion? Personally I don't know anyone who went there. And even the fact of being the accidental birthplace of Barack Obama is not helping as much as it could. Why don't I see any hula dancers parading in the English streets?Where are the pale
Endings and beginnings in Hawaii Bernard, a former Catholic priest who has lost his faith, is travelling to Hawaii with his reluctant father to visit his fathers sister Ursula, who is dying. On the plane they encounter various other travellers who play mainly minor parts in the story, which is mostly about Bernard and how he reacts to Hawaii and the people he meets there, including his Aunt Ursula who, it turns out, has a particular reason for wanting to see her brother before she dies. Through
Hawaii with its sun, sand, pristine beaches and promises of romance is made out to be paradise on earth, but is it really a facade after allconstruction all over the place, commercialisation with the same old McDonalds and KFC, hordes of tourists in search of paradise, and residents dissatisfied either with the monotony or lack of substance or the change from the paradise it once was. This book essentially follows the journey of Bernard Walsh, a former minister, who is travelling with his father
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