# A Man of Parts

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- Book: [A Man of Parts](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge/a-man-of-parts) ([A Man of Parts.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge/a-man-of-parts.md))
- Authors: [David Lodge](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9955-608-4
- Pages: 576
- Published: 2012-01-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS. A MAN OF PASSION. A MAN OF THE FUTURE. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H. G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Charting his unpromising start as a draper's assistant to his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination, his immersion in socialist politics and his belief in and practice of free love, A Man of Parts is an astonishing novel of passion, ambition and controversy.