All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
At the end of the 1950s, a debonair and well-dressed Malcolm Bradbury returned from a year in the United States, slightly shattered but not quite broken, to a Britain that had thoroughly changed. Commercial television had started, the bee-hive hairdo was in, and there were supermarkets instead of grocer''s shops.
In this piece of vintage Bradbury, the author of The History Man takes on Consumer Soc...
At the end of the 1950s, a debonair and well-dressed Malcolm Bradbury returned from a year in the United States, slightly shattered but not quite broken, to a Britain that had thoroughly changed. Commercial television had started, the bee-hive hairdo was in, and there were supermarkets instead of grocer''s shops.
In this piece of vintage Bradbury, the author of The History Man takes on Consumer Soc...
