Kingsley Amis. A Biography

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: St. Martins Press
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1998
Edition: First Edition

Description: 392 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. KIngsley Amis Arrived On The English Literary Scene With The Publication Of His Classic Novel 'Lucky Jim' In 1954, And Few Writers Since Have Provoked Such Wildly Disparate Degrees Of Laughter, Admiration, And Contempt In The Reading Public.

Publishers Description: The life and and times of a literary lionKingsley Amis arrived on the English literary scene in 1954, with the publication of his classic novel Lucky Jim, and few writers since have provoked such wildly disparate degrees of laughter, admiration, and contempt in the reading public. For better or worse, Amis was known almost as much for his personality as for his work as a novelist -- for his outspoken nature, his unrepentant praise for Thatcherism, his devotion to whiskey -- and in this, the only authorized biography of the writer, Eric Jacobs skillfully captures that personality with sympathetic detail and healthy doses of Amisian wit. Amis's life was in turns both tragic and triumphant, and from it Jacobs manages to spin a narrative that mirrors the sprightliness and originality of his subject's work.

ISBN: 9780312186029