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Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle, the lovely Angelica – the jet-propelled academics are on the move, in the air, on the make; in Small World ‘Academic infightings, couplings touching, funny and frightful, set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce – here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before’ – Sunday Telegraph ‘A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes’ – Anthony Thwaite in the Observer ‘Ingenious and proliferate plotting … a new comic debacle over every page’ ~The Times ‘The most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written’ – Frank Kennode in the London Review of Books 339 pages. Paperback. In good to very good preloved condition with the exception of a modest colour change to inside pages consistent with a book published in 1986.