Howard Kirk is the eponymous hero of which 1975 Malcolm Bradbury novel?
The History Man The History Man The History Man (1975) is a campus novel by the British author Malcolm Bradbury, set in the fictional seaside town of Watermouth in southern England in 1972. Howard Kirk is a lecturer in sociology at the local university. He is a "theoretician of sociability". The Kirks are trendy leftist people, but living together for many years and the advance of middle age have left unfavourable traces in their relationship. It is Barbara Kirk who notices this change, whereas Howard is as enthusiastic and self-assured as always. Officially, the Kirks oppose traditional gender roles just as fiercely as
Malcolm Bradbury Hampton). Bradbury derided the philistinism of television executives who wanted to capture the market of "Brideshead Revisited" and "The Jewel in the Crown" at impossibly low cost. He also explored the low esteem accorded writers in the hierarchy of television production. Malcolm Bradbury Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, (7 September 1932 – 27 November 2000) was an English author and academic. Bradbury was born in Sheffield, the son of a railwayman. His family moved to London in 1935, but returned to Sheffield in 1941 with his brother and mother. The family later moved to Nottingham and in 1943 Bradbury attended West