There's humor and pathos in ' life, largely because his personality seems to, like his writing, close itself against any accusation of humor or insult of pathos. Lodge should be able to draw it out, not necessarily by writing like James. Lodge has instead produced a biography that takes more pains than liberties. The first hundred pages are dull.
James embarrasses himself professionally &c. in the second half, which is a bit perkier but I only leafed through it.
ISBN: 0670033499
So wrote clew in Fiction (21st c.).