Cuts – Buch gebraucht kaufen

0091682800

(ISBN-13: 9780091682804)

leichte Gebrauchsspuren

242 x 165 mm

106

412 g

London

Halbleinen

Englisch

Datum/Stempel Cover-Innenseite vorne.
It is the summer of 1986, and in the newspapers and on television "cut" is the commonest noun and the most regular verb. And up in the North of England two kinds of cuts are going on. They are cut-cut-cutting
at the small provincial university where Henry Babbacombe, a much-ignored writer, does some teaching. And in the great glass tower of Eldorado Television, one of the smaller but more flamboyant of the programme companies, they are getting ready to make, cut and edit a major television series that will out-Bride Brideshead, and make The Jewel in the Crown look like a drop in the ocean.
Playing on the word "cuts" as he did on "exchange" in Rates of Exchange, Bradbury constructs a witty, abrasive vision of life in mid-1980's Tory Britain, and its entrepreneurial heroes and heroines -Babbacombe himself, academic turned tyro script-writer; the irascible Lord Mellow, Head of Eldorado, who knows how to make Art lie down with Commerce; Cynthia Hyde-Lemon, the very active Head of Productions; and Jocelyn Pride, Head of Drama, a youth of middle years, whose one mistake it has been to suggest a Gladstone
series. There is also a fine cameo part for the great thespian knight Sir Luke Trimingham.
Cuts: A Very Short Novel is Bradbury's first venture into the novella form, and the characterisation has sharper focus than his other fiction. The story's force comes from the typical Bradbury mixture of alarming humour and coruscating observation. There is also a rage in the book, about what has happened to Britain socially and artistically. When the laughs fade away, we are left with the discomfort of a bitter satirical farce, and a new tone in Bradbury's writing.
Malcolm Bradbury has pursued the careers of academic and writer with equal enthusiasm. Born in Sheffield, since 1970 he has been Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia at Norwich, and in addition lectures at universities both here and abroad.
He is also one of the sharpest and most penetrating social satirists writing in Britain today. Critically acclaimed and devotedly read, his bestselling novels include Eating People Is Wrong, Stepping Westward, Who Do You Think You Are? (a collection of short stories), The History Man and Rates Of Exchange, all of which are available in Arena. The History Man was, of course, dramatized in a highly successful BBC television series in 1981.
Cover painting / illustrations by Tom Phillips
TOM PHILLIPS is an internationally known painter, whose work has appeared in most major museums and galleries throughout the world. In 1985 he illustrated his own translation of Dante's Inferno, and also worked on the acclaimed A Humument which will appear in revised form during 1987. This is the first occasion where Tom Phillips has illustrated the work of a living author.

1987

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