The History Man

✍ Scribed by Bradbury, Malcolm

• Book ID: 108719758
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 551 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781504007764

✦ Synopsis

Malcolm Bradbury's classic skewering of 1970s academia, hailed by the New York Times as "an encyclopedia of radical chic as well as a genuinely comic novel"
Among the painfully hip students and teachers at the liberal University of Watermouth, Howard Kirk appears to be the most stylish of them all. With his carefully manicured mustache and easygoing radicalism, Kirk prides himself on being among the most highly evolved teachers on his redbrick campus. But beneath Kirk's scholarly bohemianism and studied cool is a ruthless, self-serving Machiavellian streak. A sociology lecturer who outwardly espouses freethinking nonconformity, Kirk is himself vain and bigoted, dismissing female students and colleagues while releasing vitriol against those who contradict him, particularly his clever, wayward wife, Barbara, the long-suffering mother of his two children.

A funny and incisive satire of academia and ideological hypocrisy, The History Man is...