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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...

Euphoric State University with its whitestone, sun-drenched campus and Englands damp red-brick University of Rummidge have an annual professorial exchange scheme, and as the first day of the last year of the tumultuous sixties dawns, Philip Swallow and Morris Zapp are the designated exchangees. They know theyll be swapping class rosters, but what they dont know is that in a wildly spiraling transatlantic involvement theyll soon be swapping students, colleagues, and even wives. Changing Places is a hilarious send-up of academic life, intellectual fashion, sex, and marriage by a writer Anthony Burgess has called "one of the best novelists of…

В основу книги положен банальный, на первый взгляд, сюжет - обмен профессорами американского и британского университетов. Обычно все проходит гладко и рутинно. Однако на этот раз в обмен вовлекаются два антипода, и на противоположных берегах Атлантики происходят события, закручивающие в свой водоворот всех - студентов, коллег и даже жен. Не давая читателю заскучать ни на одной странице, автор приводит его к финалу, который, похоже, удивляет и его самого.