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A comic novel which explores the adventures of Howard Kirk, the most promiscuous and radical Marxist tutor at a fashionable campus university. The author also wrote "Rates of Exchange" and "Eating People is Wrong".
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The funniest and best-written novel I have seen for a very long time (Auberon Waugh)
Grim wit, chill comedy and a fictional energy which is as imaginative as the tale is shocking (A. S. Byatt)
Malcolm Bradbury has come up with a novel that simply must be read (Elizabeth Berridge Daily Telegraph)
Extremely witty . . . Bradbury writes brilliantly (New York Times)
Very funny . . . a quite ruthless satire (Evening Standard)
Exhilarating . . . A book which captures for all time the spirit of an age (Margaret Drabble)
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Grim wit, chill comedy and a fictional energy which is as imaginative as the tale is shocking (A. S. Byatt)
Malcolm Bradbury has come up with a novel that simply must be read (Elizabeth Berridge Daily Telegraph)
Extremely witty . . . Bradbury writes brilliantly (New York Times)
Very funny . . . a quite ruthless satire (Evening Standard)
Exhilarating . . . A book which captures for all time the spirit of an age (Margaret Drabble)
‘The funniest and best-written novel I have seen for a very long time’ Auberon Waugh
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0140175083
- ISBN 13 9780140175080
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Condition: Gut. 2. Auflage. 230 Seiten. 19,7 cm. Guter Zustand. Besitzername auf dem Vorsatz. Grim wit, chill comedy and a fictional energy which is as imaginative as the tale is shocking A. S. Byatt. 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 and the definitive campus novel of the 1970s. It brilliantly satirizes a world of academic power struggles and abuse at the highest level as the Machiavellian Howard effortlessly seduces his way around campus. - Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE (* 7. September 1932 in Sheffield; 27. November 2000 in Norwich) war ein britischer Romancier, Satiriker und Literaturwissenschaftler. Leben: Bradburys Vater war Eisenbahner; die Familie zog 1935 nach London, kehrte jedoch 1941 nach Sheffield zurück. Nachdem die Familie später nach Nottingham gezogen war, besuchte Bradbury 1943 bis 1950 das Gymnasium in West Bridgford. An der University of Leicester studierte er Anglistik und wechselte nach einem ersten Abschluss an die University of London, wo er 1955 seinen M.A. erhielt. Zwischen 1955 und 1958 pendelte Bradbury zwischen Lehraufträgen an der University of Manchester und der Indiana University in den USA. Wegen eines schweren Herzleidens kehrte er 1958 nach England zurück, wo er operiert wurde; während des Krankenhausaufenthaltes beendete Bradbury 1959 seinen ersten Roman: Eating People Is Wrong. Er heiratete Elizabeth Salt, die ihm später zwei Söhne gebären sollte, Matthew und Dominic. Zunächst war Bradbury an der University of Hull in der Erwachsenenbildung tätig. Mit einer biografischen Studie über Evelyn Waugh begann er 1962 seine Karriere als Verfasser und Herausgeber wissenschaftlicher Werke: An der Universität Manchester erhielt er dafür seinen PhD in Amerikanistik. Von 1961 bis 1965 lehrte er an der University of Birmingham. 1965 erschien sein zweiter Roman, Stepping Westward. 1970 wurde Bradbury Professor für Amerikanistik an der University of East Anglia. Dort richtete er in Zusammenarbeit mit Angus Wilson den renommierten Studiengang für Kreatives Schreiben ein, den auch Ian McEwan und Kazuo Ishiguro absolvierten. 1995 ließ er sich pensionieren. . . Aus: wikipedia-Malcolm_Bradbury. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 200. Seller Inventory # 69284
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Book Description Condition: Muy bueno. Een hyperradicale socioloog aan een "Nieuwe universiteit" probeert de geschiedenis naar zijn hand te zetten waarbij hij op niets ontziende wijze zijn collega's manipuleert.EAN: 9780140175080 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Título: The History ManAutor: Bradbury, Malcolm Editorial: Penguin Idioma: EN Páginas: 240 Peso: 174. Seller Inventory # Happ-2023-02-23-74ff02e6
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