Souls and Bodies

"[This novel] is about as chatty as a novel can be....[Lodge's characters] are merely excuses for the novelist to dramatize recent history. He had his theme long before he had his characters, and though this is an example of a highly serious postmodernist approach to novel-writing, it does have its drawbacks....A great deal in [this novel] is admirable--but it shares with Kingsley Amis novels a culture-bound set of references that will ring no bells for the American reader....This gentle comedy has nothing to do with spirituality but a great deal to do with the gang mentality of the Catholic Youth Organization; it is not about belief, but the lack of it."Lodge, David is the author of 'Souls and Bodies ', published 1990 under ISBN 9780140130188 and ISBN 0140130187.