The Modern American Novel
by Malcolm Bradbury
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0192125915
- ISBN 13
- 9780192125910
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About This Item
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Light age and reading wear to book and dust wrapper. 210 pages. No internal inscriptions. No torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Books on Books; Essays & Literary Criticism. ISBN: 0192125915. ISBN/EAN: 9780192125910. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 56810. . 9780192125910
Synopsis
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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- Turn the Page Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56810
- Title
- The Modern American Novel
- Author
- Malcolm Bradbury
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0192125915
- ISBN 13
- 9780192125910
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- BZDB25 Books on Books; Essays & Literary Criticism. ISBN: 0192125915 EAN: 9780192125910 Malcolm Bradbury The Modern American Novel
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