Out of the Shelter
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| Out of the Shelter | |
| Author | David Lodge |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publication date | 1970 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback, Paperback) |
Out of the Shelter (1970) is a novel by British author David Lodge.
[edit] Plot
The story tells a child's experience in the Blitz during World War II and his rescue from an air-raid shelter. Suffering from a wartime childhood and post-war shortages in London, Timothy has little to enrich his early youth. Everything changes when his glamorous older sister Kath invites him to spend the summer in Heidelberg, Germany.
[edit] Origins
The most autobiographical of Lodge's novels, it reflects the author's own rite of passage in Heidelberg. The naive tone of the narration alters as the hero matures.
In the afterword to the 1984 edition, Lodge explains the novel's origins, as well as the horrific problems with the earlier edition.
