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THE BREAKING OF BUMBO
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| By: |
Andrew Sinclair |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£13.00 |
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£11.70 |
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£1.30 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571251161 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571251162 |
| Availability: |
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| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
16 April, 2009 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
Bumbo Bailey is a coward and a bit of a hero. 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. |
| Synopsis: |
"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". |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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