The history man: Picador Classic (Picador Classic, 55) - Softcover

Bradbury, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509823395 ISBN 13: 9781509823390

Verlag: Pan Macmillan UK, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

With an introduction by James NaughtieTake a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo., Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend., That's your problem-solving system . . ., But haven't we tried all that?Howard Kirk, product of the Swinging Sixties, radical university lecturer, and one half of a very modern marriage, is throwing a party. The night will have all sorts of repercussions: for Henry Beamish, Howard's desperate and easily neglected friend, and for Howard's wife Barbara, promiscuous '70s liberal and exhausted victim of motherhood. The History Man is Malcolm Bradbury's masterpiece, the definitive campus novel and one of the most influential novels of the 1970s., Funny, disconcerting and provocative, Bradbury brilliantly satirizes a world of academic power struggles as his anti-hero seduces his away around campus. But beneath the surface is an altogether more affecting portrait: it reveals a marriage in crisis and demonstrates the fragility of the human heart.

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Críticas:

Exhilarating . . . A book which captures for all time the spirit of an age -- Margaret Drabble Very funny . . . a quite ruthless satire * Evening Standard * Extremely witty . . . Bradbury writes brilliantly * New York Times * Malcolm Bradbury has come up with a novel that simply must be read -- Elizabeth Berridge * Daily Telegraph * Grim wit, chill comedy and a fictional energy which is as imaginative as the tale is shocking -- A. S. Byatt The funniest and best-written novel I have seen for a very long time -- Auberon Waugh

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Take a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo. Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend. That’s your problem-solving system . . . But haven’t we tried all that?
Howard Kirk, product of the Swinging Sixties, radical university lecturer, and one half of a very modern marriage, is throwing a party. The night will have all sorts of repercussions: for Henry Beamish, Howard’s desperate and easily neglected friend, and for Howard’s wife Barbara, promiscuous ’70s liberal and exhausted victim of motherhood.
The History Man is Malcolm Bradbury’s masterpiece, the definitive campus novel and one of the most influential novels of the 1970s. Funny, disconcerting and provocative, Bradbury brilliantly satirizes a world of academic power struggles as his anti-hero seduces his way around campus. But beneath the surface is an altogether more affecting portrait: it reveals a marriage in crisis and demonstrates the fragility of the human heart.
‘Exhilarating . . . A book which captures for all time the spirit of an age’ Margaret Drabble
‘Grim wit, chill comedy and a fictional energy which is as imaginative as the tale is shocking’ A. S. Byatt

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• Verlag: Pan Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1509823395
• ISBN 13: 9781509823390
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1