Kingsley Amis

• Apr-1958
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A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature.Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquentl...

• Jun-1969
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• 1970
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The owner of a haunted country inn contends with death, fatherhood, romantic woes, and alcoholism in this humorous, “rattling good ghost story” from a Booker Prize�"winning author (The New York Times) Maurice Allington has reached...

• Oct-1970
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Take a Girl Like You may well be Kingsley Amis's most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work: the sheer squaloremotional, material, sexual, you name itof modern life. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good...

• Dec-1975
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• Dec-1975
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The hero of One Fat Englishman, a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in...

• May-1976
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A group of disgruntled septuagenarians prepare for their final days in this dark and “very funny” English novel about death and the inevitability of growing old (The Observer) Everyone wants a comfortable place to die, and Kingsley Amis’s chara...

• Jan-1977
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BOOKER PRIZE�"WINNING AUTHORSet in a world in which the Reformation failed, this award-winning science fiction tale is “one of the best . . . alternate-worlds novels in existence” (Philip K. Dick).   In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into...

• 1978
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• Jun-1979
• / General Fiction
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A lecherous Oxford don, rapidly approaching sixty and horrified at the dwindling resources of his normally hyperactive libido, seeks professional advice and tours the modern Inferno of self-awareness and sexuality...

• 1986
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Booker Prize WinnerA pub gathering of elderly married couples devolves into booze-inflected reminiscing -- and complaining -- in this “sharp and funny” English comedy about marriage, aging, and friendship (The Washington Post). Age has done ...

• Apr-1987
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• Mar-1988
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Looking for emotional support after learning that his son is going mad, Stanley Duke, a beleaguered advertising executive, turns to Nowell, his first wife, who blames him for the boy's illness, and his second wife, Susan, who confesses she hates him...

• Jun-1989
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• Dec-1989
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When a series of murders performed by a killer with a peculiarly thin blade take place in London, Detective Superintendent Bill Barry is recalled from retirement. Doctors, psychologists, lawyers and politicians join in the hunt, but the biggest crime...

• Feb-1992
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Out of work, bored, and living with his parents in the slums of London, Clive Raynor breaks into a warehouse for kicks, but when the night watchman is seriously injured, Clive is blamed and pigeonholed as a typical hood....

• Oct-1993
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Garnet Bowen is a literary gent from Wales, author of one obscure book, disconsolate husband, father and son-in-law. When he gets an offer that requires travel to Portugal, he figures it can't be worse than London. But it is....

• Jun-1994
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The award-winning author of The Old Devils returns with an academic satire that takes aim at art, literature, and political correctness as a respected scholar becomes involved in a romance with a visiting Russian poet. Reprint. NYT. ...

• Jul-2004
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• Apr-2013
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In That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite, Elizabeth Gruffyd-Wil...

• Sep-2013
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Kingsley Amis, along with being the funniest English writer of his generation was a great chronicler of the fads and absurdities of his age, and Girl, 20 is a delightfully incisive dissection of the flower-power phase of the 1960s. Amis’s antihero,...

• Apr-2015
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Kingsley Amis’s most ambitious reckoning with his central theme -- the degradation of modern life -- Take a Girl Like You also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in Amis’s rogue-ridden world: Jenny Bunn, a girl from the North Engli...

• Aug-2015
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With Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis established himself as the bad boy of twentieth-century British letters. Later he became famous as another kind of bad boy, an inveterate boozer, a red-faced scourge of political correctness. He was consistent throughout ...

• Feb-2023
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In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Thir...

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A retired librarian and devoted club member, Harry Caldecote's plans to enjoy his golden years are undermined by his overwhelming sense of responsibility--toward his ex-wives, bullied brother, ne'er-do-well son, lesbian daughter, and alcoholic niece...

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"Has she come?" "No, Mamma, not yet." "I wish it were well over. The thought of it worries and excites me. A cushion for my back, Bella." And poor, peevish Mrs. Coventry sank into an easy chair with a nervous sigh and the air of a martyr, while her p...

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A selection of seven short stories set in post WW II England, MY ENEMY'S ENEMY is social satire at its ironic best. Three of these stories, dealing with members of a British Signal Unit at the end of the war, are humorous in their analysis of the mor...

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Dust jacket notes: "Kingsley Amis is one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century novelists and even before The Old Devils won the 1986 Booker Prize for Fiction readers and critics alike were aware that he had in recent years struck a particularly ri...

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