{"product_id":"pansing-bbwwh31015-31016-31017-9781509823390","title":"The History Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by James Naughtie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTake a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo. Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend. That's your problem-solving system . . . But haven't we tried all that?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHoward Kirk, product of the Swinging Sixties, radical university lecturer, and one half of a very modern marriage, is throwing a party. The night will have all sorts of repercussions: for Henry Beamish, Howard's desperate and easily neglected friend, and for Howard's wife Barbara, promiscuous '70s liberal and exhausted victim of motherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe History Man is Malcolm Bradbury's masterpiece, the definitive campus novel and one of the most influential novels of the 1970s. Funny, disconcerting and provocative, Bradbury brilliantly satirizes a world of academic power struggles as his anti-hero seduces his away around campus. But beneath the surface is an altogether more affecting portrait: it reveals a marriage in crisis and demonstrates the fragility of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41082089078990,"sku":"9781509823390","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/products\/9781509823390_1.jpg?v=1658989161","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.live\/products\/pansing-bbwwh31015-31016-31017-9781509823390","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}