Rates Of Exchange Malcolm Bradbury by Malcolm Bradbury 9781504003032, 1504003039, B07B65B5D3 instant download after payment.

Dr Angus Petworth travels to the small, eastern European country of Slaka. Confusion ensues, in Malcolm Bradbury's entertaining and witty novel.

At first glance, the middle-aged British professor of linguistics (variously called Pitwit, Pervert, and Petwurt by his Soviet-bloc hosts) might seem stuffy. But as soon as he sets out on a lecture tour behind the Iron Curtain and becomes embroiled in a confrontation with a matronly stewardess on the plane, it becomes clear he is on a highly unusual adventure. He continues in this vein, weaving his way through an increasingly chaotic labyrinth of confusion, anxiety - and highly unlikely romance.

"Rates of Exchange... is a very different sort of book. Suddenly, here the professor of English is the theorist. This densely written book, in which dialogue appears on the page in unparagraphed chunks, is a novel about an idea. It is an astonishing tour de force. Mr Bradbury has invented an entire country, essentially mythic although Eastern European in origin, to sustain a proposition laid out before us in various forms in the course of the book."  -  Rachel Billington The New York Review Of Books

Malcolm Bradbury was an expert on the modern novel and, with Angus Wilson, established the fabled creative writing MA at the University of East Anglia (early students included Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro). As a novelist he was known for his ‘campus novels’, especially The History Man (1975), but disliked the term, insisting his concern was ‘with issues of change and liberation, the problems of humanism’ rather than just university life. Bradbury was also an accomplished television scriptwriter.