Cuts (Harper Short Novel Series) - Hardcover

Bradbury, Malcolm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006015845X ISBN 13: 9780060158453

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1987

Synopsis

It is the summer of 1986 and the cutting, trimming and shrinking of public funds is much in the news. Education, health, the arts - all are being deprived of money. But while the university where the obscure but critically sound writer Henry Babbacombe teaches is having to cut down on staff, a northern television company is having a last spree before the money runs out. And who should they choose for their writer but Henry Babbacombe? Wrenched from the privacy and seclusion of his garden shed into the spotlight of the media, Henry learns a thing or two about what it takes to be successful in Mrs Thatcher's Britain.

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Review:

""Cuts" is outrageously funny." --"Publishers Weekly" "The page-by-page pleasures are keen and varied--with super-droll dialogue and wicked send-ups." --"Kirkus Reviews" "The linguistic fun; the quick-fire puns; the rollicking word play . . . a glossy entertainment with a gloomy message hidden in the verbal frolic." --"The Daily Telegraph" "It is funny, exact--and pretty bloody serious." --"The Observer" """["Cuts"] is funny, exact--and pretty bloody serious." --"The Observer" "Pure entertainment of the highest class." --"The Sunday Times"

"Cuts" is outrageously funny. "Publishers Weekly" The page-by-page pleasures are keen and varied with super-droll dialogue and wicked send-ups. "Kirkus Reviews" The linguistic fun; the quick-fire puns; the rollicking word play... a glossy entertainment with a gloomy message hidden in the verbal frolic. "The Daily Telegraph" It is funny, exact and pretty bloody serious. "The Observer" " "["Cuts"] is funny, exact and pretty bloody serious. "The Observer" Pure entertainment of the highest class. "The Sunday Times""

"Cuts is outrageously funny." --Publishers Weekly

"The page-by-page pleasures are keen and varied--with super-droll dialogue and wicked send-ups." --Kirkus Reviews

"The linguistic fun; the quick-fire puns; the rollicking word play . . . a glossy entertainment with a gloomy message hidden in the verbal frolic." --The Daily Telegraph

"It is funny, exact--and pretty bloody serious." --The Observer

"[Cuts] is funny, exact--and pretty bloody serious." --The Observer

"Pure entertainment of the highest class." --The Sunday Times

Book Description:

'It is funny, exact - and pretty bloody serious' Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 006015845X
• ISBN 13: 9780060158453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1