The Life Of Kingsley Amis

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 996 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing not only on interviews with a range of Amiss friends, relatives, fellow writers, students and colleagues, many of them never before consulted, but also on almost a thousand previously unpublished letters, Leaders biography will for the first time give a full picture of Amiss childhood, school-days, life as a teacher, critic, polemicist, professional author, husband, father and lover. He explores Amiss fears and phobias, and the role that drink played in his life. And of course he pays due attention to Amiss work.As the editor of Kingsley Amiss Letters (hailed in the Sunday Telegraph as “one of the last major monuments to the epistolary art), Leader is more than qualified to be his authorized biographer. His book will surprise, entertain and illuminate.

ISBN: 9780224062275