# Varying Degrees of Success

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- Book: [Varying Degrees of Success](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge/varying-degrees-of-success) ([Varying Degrees of Success.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge/varying-degrees-of-success.md))
- Authors: [David Lodge](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7359-400-5
- Published: 2021-05-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers. With Varying Degrees of Success he completes a trilogy of memoirs which describe his life from birth in 1935 to the present day, and together form a remarkable autobiography. He describes the highs and lows of being a professional creative writer in several different genres, his extensive travels around the world, and the hope and desire of writers to make a significant and positive impression on their readers and audiences. Varying Degrees of Success provides the reader with a privileged insight into the working practices and the creative life of a major British novelist. 'Continuously engaging... Glimpses of the ambition and energy required to fuel the final stretch of his near 60-year career as the most dependable of novelist-critics' New Statesman 'Lodge is the best British novelist never to have won the Man Booker prize' The Times