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The Modern American Novel.
by MALCOLM BRADBURY
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 209pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted, and with some toning to the free endpapers. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel and with a light scattering of internal spotting. Poet Gavin Selerie's copy, with his signature neatly inked to the front free endpaper. An authoritative study of the modern American novel with chapters on Naturalism and Impressionist: The 1890s, Modernity and Modernism: 1900-1912, Artists and Philistines: 1912-1920, Art-Style and Life-Style: The 1930s, Realism and Surrealism: The 1930s, Liberal and Existential Imaginations: The 1940s, Postmoderns and Others: The 1960s and 1970s, plus a list of major works and a select bibliography..
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
- Clearwater Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BC18546
- Title
- The Modern American Novel.
- Author
- MALCOLM BRADBURY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Date Published
- 1983
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