{"product_id":"breaking-of-bumbo","title":"Breaking of Bumbo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Breaking of Bumbo \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ewas first published fifty years ago when the author was twenty-two. It was an immense success and caused something of stir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo quote from the original blurb, 'Bumbo Bailey is a coward and a bit of a hero; a martyr, an egoist, a clown, a debs' delight and a Suez mutineer; a non-conformist Old Etonian Guardee . Partly his own victim, and partly the victim of his own small world, he is Made, and has his Season; and is Broken. Bumbo pursues his career from Caterham to an Officers' Training School; from the Officers' Training School to Wellington Barracks; and from Wellington Barracks to any number of wildly assorted parties. He learns a lot about Sex and Love and Discipline - and a little about himself; in the end he behaves very oddly indeed; and faces, in his own way, the consequences.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis however is more than a period piece, the social milieu it describes may have vanished, but the novel's satirical brio lifts it above its immediate provenance; it continues to read freshly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This bitter, ironical and very clever first novel paints a devastating portrait of an upper-class misfit, half clown, half Hamlet . . .' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'Gruesomely funny . . . a violent virility that is infectious' \u003ci\u003eTatler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224064905560,"sku":"9780571251162","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571251162_a7877ca2-771d-41c4-821e-6c435465e9f5.jpg?v=1765942239","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/breaking-of-bumbo","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}