Thinks..., David Lodge
Another professor's midlife crisis adultery novel; see
How to be Good &ff. Lodge has rung
plenty of changes on the subject, of course, and this is perked up by
amusing student writing exercises - well, I thought the S*m**l B*ck*tt
parody was funny - and somewhat tentative irruptions of computing and game
theory. It isn't a bad novel, but his earlier professorial ones are
probably funnier, and
Richard Powers'
Galatea 2.2 blows this out of the
water esp. as SF-themes-treated-by-respectable-litrachure-writer. (That's
not a fair comparison, as Powers is generally a depth charge.)
There is better female POV writing in this than in any Lodge novel I remember.
So wrote clew in
Fiction (20th c.).