Book description
At the end of the 1950s, the spry, debonair and well-dressed Malcolm Bradbury returned from a year in the United States, slightly shattered but not quite broken, to a Britain that, by all reports, was changing. In the streets there was a lot of youth about, asserting youthiness. Commercial television had started, the bee-hive hairdo was in, and there were supermarkets instead of grocer’s shops. As someone said at the time, "the jingoism of the past was being replaced with the bingoism of the present".
In this piece of vintage Bradbury, the author of THE HISTORY MAN takes on the Consumer Society and the British character as only he could.
