The History Man - Picador Classic

<p><b>A ruthless satire of academic life, <i>The History Man </i>by Malcolm Bradbury is a witty campus novel and one of the most influential books of the 1970s.<br><br>With an introduction by James Naughtie.</b><br><br><i>Take a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo. Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend. That&rsquo;s your problem-solving system . . . But haven&rsquo;t we tried all that?</i><br><br>Howard 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&rsquo;s desperate and easily neglected friend, and for Howard&rsquo;s wife, promiscuous &rsquo;70s liberal and exhausted victim of motherhood.<br><br><b>Funny, disconcerting and provocative, Bradbury's classic novel brilliantly satirizes a world of academic power struggles as his anti-hero seduces his away around campus. But is also reveals a marriage in crisis and demonstrates the fragility of the human heart.</b></p>