Rates of Exchange: A Novel - Softcover

Bradbury, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504003039 ISBN 13: 9781504003032

Publisher: Open Road Media, 2015

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: In this comedic novel, an English professor collides with disaster at the peak of the Cold War Shortly after his plane first grazes the tarmac in the eastern European nation of Slaka, Dr. Angus Petworth is beset by a cavalcade of misadventures. A university lecturer and seasoned international traveler, Petworth is nevertheless unprepared for the oddities of culture and circumstance that await him on the other side of the iron curtain. In two eventful weeks, Petworth gives an incendiary interview, is seduced by a femme fatale, and becomes embroiled in a plot of international intrigue, all of which conspire to give the mild, unassuming professor way more than he bargained for. Satirizing everything from critics and diplomats to Marxism and academia, Malcolm Bradbury s "Rates of Exchange "is a witty and lighthearted novel of cultural interchange at the height of the Cold War."

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Review:

"Once again Bradbury dazzles with scene after scene of densely ironic description, of high/low comic touches." --Kirkus Reviews

"The work of a master not only of language and comedy but of feeling too." --The Sunday Times

"Explosively funny." --The Daily Telegraph

About the Author:

Malcolm Bradbury (1932 2000) was a well-known novelist, critic, and academic, as well as founder of the creative writing department at the University of East Anglia. His seven novels include"The History Man"and"Rates of Exchange," which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Bradbury was knighted in 2000 for services to literature and died the same year."

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1504003039
• ISBN 13: 9781504003032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332