# Changing Places

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- Book: [Changing Places](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge/changing-places) ([Changing Places.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge/changing-places.md))
- Authors: [David Lodge](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-2996-522-3
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2025-11-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The first of the hilarious novels in the campus trilogy, Changing Places is a funny and wise tale of academic ill-manners - David Lodge at his comic best. When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows... ‘One of the funniest but – much more importantly – one of the most truthful of postwar British novelists’ Jonathan Coe