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At the height of the 1960s, a British writer accepts an academic post in America for a year that he'll never forget
English author James Walker has three books to his name, each greeted with middling success and then promptly forgotten. But his resume is significant enough to earn him a yearlong appointment at Benedict Arnold University as the American college's writer in residence.
At Benedict Arnold, Walker is something of a celebrity--a firebrand of 1960s British literary culture whose work, though perhaps met with shrugs at home, is the subject of vibrant scholarly criticism among American academics. Walker, of course, is not quite what some were expecting, and culture clashes abound as he encounters the tropes of American academia in the sixties. Fusty, buttoned-up professors, spirited advocates of free love, and aggressively ambitious colleagues collide to ensure that Walker's year in America will be anything but ordinary.
English author James Walker has three books to his name, each greeted with middling success and then promptly forgotten. But his resume is significant enough to earn him a yearlong appointment at Benedict Arnold University as the American college's writer in residence.
At Benedict Arnold, Walker is something of a celebrity--a firebrand of 1960s British literary culture whose work, though perhaps met with shrugs at home, is the subject of vibrant scholarly criticism among American academics. Walker, of course, is not quite what some were expecting, and culture clashes abound as he encounters the tropes of American academia in the sixties. Fusty, buttoned-up professors, spirited advocates of free love, and aggressively ambitious colleagues collide to ensure that Walker's year in America will be anything but ordinary.
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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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- PublisherUniversity of London,Institute of United States Studies
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0718716191
- ISBN 13 9780718716196
- BindingPaperback
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- Number of pages28
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