People Who Often Watch Movies
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About This Novel
Welcome to Paradim Cinema! It was once the largest theater on the south bank of the Thames, attracting celebrities from London's West End to stop and watch. Now, there are only popcorn, depressed cinema managers and a group of moviegoers with different personalities in the dilapidated hall. They touch each other and shape each other's destiny. Among them are Mark, a cynical intellectual young man who pursues sensuality and spirituality; Mark's girlfriend Claire, a former novice nun who has lost her faith but found passion; Father Kipling, who regards the cinema as a "place of greed"; and Harry, a boy who vents his malice in unknown corners... In his first novel, David Lodge uses keen observation to describe the lives of 17 people of different ages and social backgrounds. Their hopes, confusions, frustrations, dreams, joys and sorrows are staged at the Paradim Cinema along with the dream world on the big screen.
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