The first of the hilarious novels in the campus trilogy Changing Places is a funny and wise
tale of academic ill-manners - David Lodge at his comic best. 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... 'One of the funniest but - much more importantly - one of the most truthful of
postwar British novelists' Jonathan Coe
