# The Picturegoers

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- Book: [The Picturegoers](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge/the-picturegoers) ([The Picturegoers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge/the-picturegoers.md))
- Authors: [David Lodge](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-269-4
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2016-01-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate picturegoers who touch and shape each other’s destinies. Amongst them is Mark, the cynical intellectual who seeks sensuality and finds spirituality; Clare, his girlfriend, who loses faith and discovers passion; Father Kipling, the scandalized priest; and Harry, the sexually frustrated Teddy boy. In his astutely observed first novel, David Lodge ushers in a congregation of characters whose hopes, confusions and foibles play out alongside the celluloid fantasies of the silver screen.