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Unsent letters

irreverent notes from a literary life

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The postbag of Malcolm Bradbury - academic, author, lecturer, thinker - is crammed with requests for help and advice. 'Please help me with my thesis on the campus novel', 'Please come and talk to my faculty in remote area of the Scottish Highlands', 'Please adapt a classic novel for television', and so on.

In reply, Malcolm Bradbury has prepared a book of imaginary letters to cover any request he may receive.

There is a letter of thanks for his invitation to talk to three hostile students in a stuffy room and pass the night in a barn; a reply to the European student who wishes to know if he is the same person as David Lodge and which of the two stole his supervisor's umbrella; a letter describing the experience of being the academic who has cycled to L'Escargot for television production meetings; and scathingly funny letters on structuralism, the cuts in education and a great deal more.

Above all, they may spare the author from having to write an autobiography.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
218

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Unsent letters: irreverent notes from a literary life
1995, Penguin Books
in English - Reprinted with revisions and new material.
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Unsent letters: irreverent notes from a literary life
1995
in English - [New ed.]
Cover of: UNSENT LETTERS (ARENA BOOKS)
UNSENT LETTERS (ARENA BOOKS)
1989, ARENA
in English
Cover of: UNSENT LETTERS (ARENA BOOKS)
UNSENT LETTERS (ARENA BOOKS)
1989, ARENA
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Cover of: Unsent letters
Unsent letters: irreverent notes from a literary life
1989, Penguin Books
in English
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Unsent letters: irreverent notes from a literary life
1988, Viking
in English - 1st American ed.
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Unsent Letters
May 12, 1988, Trafalgar Square
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Unsent letters
Publish date unknown, A. Deutsch
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Dewey Decimal Class
826/.914
Library of Congress
PR6052.R246 U57 1989

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Pagination
xvii, 218 p. ;
Number of pages
218

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2054399M
ISBN 10
0140107053
LCCN
88032418
Library Thing
70684
Goodreads
1876332

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