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Description
Booker Prize Winner

A 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 everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis's The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years -- when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast” -- nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, however, when two old friends unexpectedly return from England: Alun Weaver, now a celebrated man of Welsh letters, and his entrancing wife, Rhiannon. Long-dormant rivalries and romances are rudely awakened, as life at the Bible and Crown, the local pub, is changed irrevocably.

Considered by Martin Amis to be Kingsley Amis's greatest achievement -- a book that “stands comparison with any English novel of the [twentieth] century” -- The Old Devils confronts the attrition of ageing with rare candor, sympathy, and moral intelligence.
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