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Eating People Is Wrong - Malcolm Bradbury

Description: ISBN 0330390295 / Author: Malcolm Bradbury / This novel has a go at the liberal pose and extracts a mass of fun from the provincial university where the story is set. This was Malcolm Bradburys' first novel, and is one of nine titles by Bradbury reissued in 2000.

Newest Review: ... down the examiner with his "motorised bicycle".) A strange young man called Louis Bates appears in his tutor ... more

... group. Hmm, how can I describe Bates? Gauche doesn't come close. Pompous buffoon is a bit nearer. An obnoxious, egocentric ugly nerk, bereft of social skills, who makes Jeffrey Archer seem pleasant? Maybe that's going a bit too far. (He reminded me a little of Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces.) Inevitably, Bates's behaviour makes him unpopular, so some members of the faculty want to get rid of him, but Treece, mindful of the way the poet Shelley was expelled from Oxford, is reluctant to go along wi...more

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Eating People Is Wrong - Malcolm Bradbury: And now, from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week... (852 words)
by pje - written on 13/03/02 (Very useful, 1043 readings)
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First of all, here's a little literary teaser for you: What do Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Andrew Miller have in common? If you think it's something to do with the Booker Prize, then guess again. Of course the sharp ones among you will have figured out that it must be something to do with Sir Malcolm Bradbury, and that all will be revealed during the course of this opinion, so read on and find out... Malcolm Bradbury as born in Sheffield, :-{ but in 1941, when he was nine, his family moved to Nottingham :o) where he attended West Bridgford Grammar School. It was here that his love of writing began. :-P He met his wife Elizabeth in ...

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