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Mr. Bradbury s observations, nestled into the dialogue and roosting on the transitional asides, are devastatingly quotable. "Kirkus Reviews" ["Stepping Westward"] neatly captures the cultural preoccupations of its day. "The New York Times Book Review" A satirist of great assurance and accomplishment. "The Observer" Malcolm Bradbury is a satirist of great assurance and accomplishment. "The Observer" Highly entertaining. Margaret Drabble"
"Mr. Bradbury's observations, nestled into the dialogue and roosting on the transitional asides, are devastatingly quotable." --Kirkus Reviews
"[Stepping Westward] neatly captures the cultural preoccupations of its day." --The New York Times Book Review
"A satirist of great assurance and accomplishment." --The Observer
"Malcolm Bradbury is a satirist of great assurance and accomplishment." --The Observer
"Highly entertaining." --Margaret Drabble
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"Mr. Bradbury's observations, nestled into the dialogue and roosting on the transitional asides, are devastatingly quotable." --Kirkus Reviews
"[Stepping Westward] neatly captures the cultural preoccupations of its day." --The New York Times Book Review
"A satirist of great assurance and accomplishment." --The Observer
"Malcolm Bradbury is a satirist of great assurance and accomplishment." --The Observer
"Highly entertaining." --Margaret Drabble
Stepping Westward does for the sixties what David Lodge’s Changing Places did for the seventies.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0330390309
- ISBN 13 9780330390309
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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