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Zusatztext 'Brilliantly funny' Sunday Times Informationen zum Autor Malcolm Bradbury was a well-known novelist, critic and academic. He co-founded the famous creative writing department at the University of East Anglia, whose students have included Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. His novels are Eating People is Wrong ; Stepping Westward ; The History Man , which won the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize; Rates of Exchange , shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Cuts ; Doctor Criminale ; and To the Hermitage . He wrote several works of non-fiction, humour and satire, including Who Do You Think You Are? , All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go and Why Come to Slaka? . He was an active journalist and a leading television writer, responsible for the adaptations of Porterhouse Blue , Cold Comfort Farm and many TV plays and episodes of Inspector Morse , A Touch of Frost , Kavanagh QC and Dalziel and Pascoe . He was awarded a knighthood in 2000 for services to literature and died later the same year. Klappentext Forty-year-old university professor Stuart Treece is rather set in his ways, and in the midst of the changing attitudes of the '50s, his encounters with the younger generation are making him feel decidedly alien. When he falls disastrously in love with one of his students all his efforts to acclimatize are hilariously undermined. Timeless and brilliant, Eating People is Wrong is Malcolm Bradbury's first novel, and established him as a master of satire. ‘The funniest book I have read this year’ Daily Telegraph Zusammenfassung ‘The funniest book I have read this year’ Daily Telegraph
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Malcolm Bradbury was a well-known novelist, critic and academic. He co-founded the famous creative writing department at the University of East Anglia, whose students have included Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. His novels are Eating People is Wrong; Stepping Westward; The History Man, which won the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize; Rates of Exchange, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Cuts; Doctor Criminale; and To the Hermitage. He wrote several works of non-fiction, humour and satire, including Who Do You Think You Are?, All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go and Why Come to Slaka?. He was an active journalist and a leading television writer, responsible for the adaptations of Porterhouse Blue, Cold Comfort Farm and many TV plays and episodes of Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, Kavanagh QC and Dalziel and Pascoe. He was awarded a knighthood in 2000 for services to literature and died later the same year.
