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Best known today as the author of Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis profoundly influenced the evolution of modern fiction. Sardonic, anti-romantic, savage in his attacks on pomposity, he both made… More...
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1995, ISBN: 9780786867578
Best known today as the author of Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis profoundly influenced the evolution of modern fiction. Sardonic, anti-romantic, savage in his attacks on pomposity, he both made… More...
ISBN: 9780786867578
Hardcover book. 1212 pages. Published by Hyperion Books Media > Book, [PU: Hyperion]
ISBN: 9780786867578
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Those seeking revelations might be disappointed but browsers will find a treasury of poignant detail. As an undergraduate, Amis advises Larkin on girls; he's still doing so 30 years later. As a father, he cloaks pride with irony ("Scoundrelly Mart has sold his novel to the Yanks", he fumes, a propos of Martin Amis's The Rachel Papers). An avowed enemy of sentiment, he pens touching notes to his second wife, replete with pet names and illustrations. Later, he is vulnerable--terrified by alcoholism, widening waistbands and false teeth. This collection does not pretend to provide a key to his complex personality, but amply fulfils Amis's own prophecy: "What a feast is awaiting chaps ... when our ... letters come out". Not even appetites of Amis's proportions could digest this feast at one sitting--The Letters of Kingsley Amis is a book to be savoured over a lifetime. --Matthew Baylis
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780786867578
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0786867574
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Publishing year: 2001
Publisher: Miramax Books
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ISBN/EAN: 0786867574
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0-7868-6757-4, 978-0-7868-6757-8
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Book author: zachary leader, amis kingsley
Book title: kingsley amis
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