This author of Deaf Sentence and The Picturegoers lamented that Colm Toibin's novel The Master was published the same year of his novel about Henry James, Author, Author.
In one novel by this author, a woman studying the composition of suicide notes places a pair of panties into the coat of Desmond Bates to get him to work with her. That novel centers on Desmond's comic treatment of his hearing loss. This author's first novel concerns the relationship between Mark Underwood and Claire, two people who frequent the Brickley Palladium cinema. This author of Deaf Sentence and The Picturegoers lamented that Colm Toibin's novel The Master was published the same year of his novel about Henry James, Author, Author. Persse McGarrigle falls in love with Angelica Pabst at first sight in another of his novels, which forms an unofficial trilogy along with Changing Places and Nice Work. For 10 points, name this contemporary British novelist whose "campus trilogy" includes Small World.
In one novel by this author, a woman studying the composition of suicide notes places a pair of panties into the coat of Desmond Bates to get him to work with her.
David Lodge