Why Come to Slaka? - Hardcover

Bradbury, Malcolm

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ISBN 10: 0436065061 ISBN 13: 9780436065064

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1986

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Mock history, spoof economics and even a useful selection of phrases are included in Malcolm Bradbury's fictional guidebook to Slaka, a location used in 'Rates of Exchange' and 'The Gravy Train Goes East'.

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'A master not only of language and comedy but of feeling too' Sunday Times

About the Author:

Malcolm Bradbury was a well-known novelist, critic and academic. He co-founded the famous creative writing department at the University of East Anglia, whose students have included Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. His novels are Eating People is Wrong (1959); Stepping Westward (1965); The History Man (1975), which won the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize; Rates of Exchange (1983), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Cuts (1987); Doctor Criminale (1992); and To the Hermitage (2000). He wrote several works of non-fiction, humour and satire, including Who Do You Think You Are? (1976), All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go (1982) and Why Come to Slaka? (1991). He was an active journalist and a leading television writer, responsible for the adaptations of Porterhouse Blue, Cold Comfort Farm and many TV plays and episodes of Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, Kavanagh QC and Dalziel and Pascoe. He was awarded a knighthood in 2000 for services to literature and died later the same year.

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