Eating People is Wrong (Arena Books) - Tapa blanda

Professor Treece is one of the most respected figures at a small provincial university - kingpin in the world of poetry readings, tea parties and excursions to Stratford. But, with the onset of middle age, he is plagued by a sense of failure. No one threatens him more than Louis Bates, the earnest and unattractive new student who attacks Treece's teaching and lifestyle. Treece is determined not to be upset by a mere freshman but sparks fly when they both fall in love with Emma, a desirable post-graduate...

Malcolm Bradbury was born in Sheffield in 1932, and was educated at the University College of Leicester, Queen Mary College, London, Indiana University in the United States, and the University of Manchester. He was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, has lectured at Birmingham University, and has been Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia since 1970. One of our sharpest and most penetrating contemporary social satirists, Malcolm Bradbury is the author of the best-selling books Stepping Westward, Who Do You Think You Are? (a collection of short stories), The History Man and The After Dinner Game (a collection of his television plays). Rates of Exchange, his first novel since the classic The History Man, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1983 and has firmly established him as one of Britain's major novelists.