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Article: BRADBURY'S LITERARY QUIPS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 4, 1988
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UNSENT LETTERS. Irreverent Notes From a Literary Life, by
Malcolm Bradbury. Viking. 218 pp. $16.95.
Malcolm Bradbury is best known for his 1976 satirical novel, "The
History Man." An acid
send-up of '60s fallout in the academic world, it soon acquired
cult status, enough to insure that "Unsent Letters" will raise keen
expectations among a small but dedicated band of fans. Who better
than Bradbury -- with his sure wit, acute eye and astute mind -- to
lampoon the idiocies of literary and academic society in a series
of unmailed "letters"?
Alas, while the device of "Unsent Letters" -- which consists
of just that, unmailed correspondence with which the author
unburdens himself on a ...