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 …
Cover
About the Book
About the Author
Also by David Lodge
Dedication
Title Page
Author’s Note
1. Flying
2. Settling
3. Corresponding
4. Reading
5. Changing
6. Ending
Copyright
For Lenny and Priscilla, Stanley and Adrienne and many other friends on the West Coast
Although some of the locations and public events portrayed in this novel bear a certain resemblance to actual locations and events, the characters, considered either as individuals or as members of institutions, are entirely imaginary. Rummidge and Euphoria are places on the map of a comic world which resembles the one we are standing on without corresponding exactly to it, and which is peopled by figments of the imagination.