The Modern American Novel
by Malcolm Bradbury
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0140170448
- ISBN 13
- 9780140170443
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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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- Bookseller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57759
- Title
- The Modern American Novel
- Author
- Malcolm Bradbury
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0140170448
- ISBN 13
- 9780140170443
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Classic English Literature, Literary Criticism And Theory, Literary Criticism: American Novel, Literary Criticism: American Fiction, Literary History: USA, Essays: American Novel
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- Prose & Criticism;
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