Stepping Westward
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
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A sharp and satirical campus novel, Stepping Westward chronicles the misadventures of James Walker, a diffident British writer who accepts a fellowship at a fictional American university in the early 1960s, only to find himself bewildered by the brash optimism and cultural excess of the New World. Malcolm Bradbury wields wit and irony to illustrate the profound clash between Old World reserve and American idealism, using Walker's fish-out-of-water predicament to interrogate questions of identity, freedom, and moral compromise. The novel presents a richly comic yet quietly unsettling portrait of academia, where institutional politics and personal integrity are perpetually at odds. Bradbury's prose is both playful and incisive, drawing on the tradition of the Anglo-American cultural encounter to deliver a narrative that is as intellectually engaging as it is entertaining.
Author: Malcolm Bradbury
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A sharp and satirical campus novel, Stepping Westward chronicles the misadventures of James Walker, a diffident British writer who accepts a fellowship at a fictional American university in the early 1960s, only to find himself bewildered by the brash optimism and cultural excess of the New World. Malcolm Bradbury wields wit and irony to illustrate the profound clash between Old World reserve and American idealism, using Walker's fish-out-of-water predicament to interrogate questions of identity, freedom, and moral compromise. The novel presents a richly comic yet quietly unsettling portrait of academia, where institutional politics and personal integrity are perpetually at odds. Bradbury's prose is both playful and incisive, drawing on the tradition of the Anglo-American cultural encounter to deliver a narrative that is as intellectually engaging as it is entertaining.