Stepping Westward
28 June 2012
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Frustrated novelist James Walker is setting off for the heartland of America to reinvigorate himself after years spent living a drab life in a drab English city. The institution for which he is destined, Benedict Arnold University – ‘Take a BA at BA’ – is still in the grip of McCarthyism, but Walker soon discovers that certain members of BA’s...
Details
28 June 2012
416 pages
9781447205616
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
‘A satirist of great assurance and accomplishment.’ Observer
‘Highly entertaining’ Margaret Drabble