The Breaking of Bumbo

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Sinclair (born 1935) was a novelist, historian, critic and film-maker. He was a founding member of Churchill College, Cambridge. From his rich, varied and extensive bibliography, Faber Finds reissued his first two novels, The Breaking of Bumbo and My Friend Judas , both published in 1959, his history of Prohibition in America, Prohibition: The Era of Excess and his cultural history of Britain in the 1940s, War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties. Klappentext Bumbo Bailey is a coward and a bit of a hero. Bumbo pursues his career from Caterham to an Officers' Training School; from the Officers' Training School to Wellington Barracks; and! from Wellington Barracks to any number of wildly assorted parties. He learns a lot about Sex and Love and Discipline - and a little about himself. Zusammenfassung The Breaking of Bumbo was first published fifty years ago when the author was twenty-two. it continues to read freshly. 'This bitter, ironical and very clever first novel paints a devastating portrait of an upper-class misfit, half clown, half Hamlet .

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Sinclair
• Assisted by: Andre Sinclair (Editor), Andrew Sinclair (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.2009
• EAN: 9780571251162
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25116-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 126 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Religious, Religious and spiritual fiction, Class; Faber Finds; Military; Satire; Society