London: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; 277 clean, unmarked pages/Footnotes, bibliography, index. 1st. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8 vo.

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Malcolm Bradbury is a novelist, critic, television dramatist and Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is author of the novels Eating People is Wrong (1959); Stepping Westward (1965); The History Man (1975); which won the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize and was adapted as a famous television series; Rates of Exchange (1983) which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Cuts: A Very Short Novel (1987), also televised; and Doctor Criminale (1992). His critical works include The Modern American Novel (1984; revised edition, 1992); No, Not Bloomsbury (essays, 1987); The Modern world: Ten Great Writers (1988); From Puritanism to Post-modernism: A History of American Literature (with Richard Ruland, 1991) He is the author of a collection of seven stories and nine parodies, entitled Who Do You Think You Are? (1976), and of several works of humour and satire, including Why Come to Slaka? (1986), Unsent Letters (1988; revised edition, 1995) and Mensonge (1987). Many of his books are published by Penguin. In addition, he has written many television plays and the television 'novel' The Gravy Train and The Gravy Train Goes East . He has adapted several television series, including Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue , Kinglsey Amis's The Green Man and Stella Gibbon's' Cold Comfort Farm , now a feature film. Malcolm Bradbury lives in Norwich, travels good deal, and in 1991 he was awarded the CBE.

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Bookseller: Dorley House Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 027742
Title: The Modern American Novel
Author: Bradbury, Malcolm
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st
ISBN 10: 0192125915
ISBN 13: 9780192125910
Publisher: Oxford Univeristy Press
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1993
Keywords: Literary Criticism; Naturalism; Impressionism, Surrealism
Size: 8 vo

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