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3 unusual facts about Malcolm Bradbury


American studies in the United Kingdom

Malcolm Bradbury, who suggested that America offered an escape from the 'constraining, class-oriented, provincial embrace' of Britain.

LaHost

Airbridge, previously released the single "Words & Pictures", which was chosen on Desert Island Discs by the author Malcolm Bradbury.

The Campus Murders

Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man is about the goings-on at a "progressive" university in the South of England.


Biography in literature

While other biographical fiction will create two parallel strands of narrative one in the contemporary and one focusing on the biographical history, such as Malcolm Bradbury's To the Hermitage and Michael Cunningham's The Hours.

Parade's End

Yet it has had influential admirers, from Dorothy Parker and Carl Clinton Van Doren to Anthony Burgess and Malcolm Bradbury (who also included it in his 1992 Everyman edition).


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