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"The Breaking of Bumbo" was first published fifty years ago when the author was twenty-two. It was an immense success and caused something of stir. To quote from the original blurb, 'Bumbo Bailey is a coward and a bit of a hero; a martyr, an egoist, a clown, a debs' delight and a Suez mutineer; a non-conformist Old Etonian Guardee. Partly his own victim, and partly the victim of his own small world, he is Made, and has his Season; and is Broken. Bumbo pursues his career from Caterham to an Officers' Training School; from the Officers' Training School to Wellington Barracks; and, from Wellington Barracks to any number of wildly assorted parties. He learns a lot about Sex and Love and Discipline - and a little about himself; in the end he behaves very oddly indeed; and faces, in his own way, the consequences'. This however is more than a period piece, the social milieu it describes may have vanished, but the novel's satirical brio lifts it above its immediate provenance; it continues to read freshly. 'This bitter, ironical and very clever first novel paints a devastating portrait of an upper-class misfit, half clown, half Hamlet ...' - "Evening Standard". 'Gruesomely funny ...a violent virility that is infectious' - "Tatler".

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Fiction & related items Religious & spiritual fiction

• Pełny tytuł: Breaking of Bumbo
• Autor: Andrew Sinclair
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 200
• EAN: 9780571251162
• ISBN: 0571251161
• ID: 04623975
• Wydawca: Faber & Faber
• Waga: 222 g
• Wymiary: 126 × 198 × 21 mm
• Data wydania: 16. April 2009

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