The letters of Kingsley Amis /
Spanning over fifty years, the letters open with Amis as a young undergraduate at Oxford, energetically advising a fellow recruit not to abandon the Communist Party, and end with him as one of the country's pre-eminent men of letters, with a public image - not altogether accurate, but not disco...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Talk Miramax Books : Hyperion,
c2000 [ανατύπωση 2001].
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| Summary: | Spanning over fifty years, the letters open with Amis as a young undergraduate at Oxford, energetically advising a fellow recruit not to abandon the Communist Party, and end with him as one of the country's pre-eminent men of letters, with a public image - not altogether accurate, but not discouraged by Amis himself - as an arch-conservative. Along the way they trace the frustrations and discontents of his life as a penniless research student and lecturer (dazzlingly recreated in his first novel, Lucky Jim, which earned him his early reputation as 'redbrick' novelist and 'angry young man'); his ambivalent relations with the most influential poetical grouping of post-war Britain, the Movement; his lifelong enthusiasms for jazz, whisky, science fiction, limericks and the English language; his frequently savage opinions of the merits of other writers, alive and dead; his womanising and the breakdown of his two marriages; and the day-to-day workings of his life as a professional writer." |
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| Physical Description: | lvi, 1212 σ. : εικ. ; 25 εκ. |
| Bibliography: | Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο. |
| ISBN: | 0786867574 9780786867578 |
