Synopses & Reviews
Review
"The author of the well-received Eating People Is Wrong and The History Man now gives us a kind of Braver New World. Professor Angus Petworth, who a bit too cutely becomes Pitwit, Pervert, or Petwurt to his hosts in Slaka, is a bumbling sort who really ought to have stayed home with a nice cup of tea. By going behind the Iron Curtain he has to learn a new language, when all he really meant to do was to talk about his own. Anthony Burgess got away with this sort of thing, but Mr. Bradbury does not bring it off. His linguistic pyrotechnics all too soon weary the reader. A disappointment." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)