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003 OCoLC
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008 960202s1995 nyu 001 0 eng d
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020 $a9780140107050
035 $a(OCoLC)34128099$z(OCoLC)1084812997
050 14 $aPR6052.R246$bU57 1995x
082 04 $a826/.914
100 1 $aBradbury, Malcolm,$d1932-2000.
245 10 $aUnsent letters :$birreverent notes from a literary life /$cby Malcolm Bradbury.
250 $aReprinted with revisions and new material.
260 $aNew York, N.Y., U.S.A. :$bPenguin Books,$c[1995]
300 $axiii, 227 pages ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
530 $aAlso issued online.
520 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aImaginary letters.
650 0 $aAuthorship$vHumor.
650 0 $aLiterature$vHumor.
650 0 $aCriticism$vHumor.
650 0 $aAuthors$vHumor.
650 7 $aAuthors.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00821688
650 7 $aAuthorship.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00822442
650 7 $aCriticism.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00883735
650 7 $aImaginary letters.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00967569
650 7 $aLiterature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00999953
655 7 $aHumor.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423696
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBradbury, Malcolm, 1932-2000.$tUnsent letters.$bReprinted with revisions and new material.$dNew York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, [1995]$w(OCoLC)605288773
994 $aZ0$bP4A
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 35 OTHER HOLDINGS