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The Life of Kingsley Amis

Zachary Leader
The Life of Kingsley Amis Book PDF

Author : Zachary Leader
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446418161

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The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader Pdf

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fellow writers, students and colleagues, many of them never before consulted, but also on hundreds of previously unpublished letters, Leader's biography will for the first time give a full picture of Amis's childhood, school days, life as a teacher, critic, political and cultural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

Lucky Him

Richard Bradford
Lucky Him Book PDF

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015053111699

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Lucky Him by Richard Bradford Pdf

Kingsley Amis always claimed that his fiction was not based on his life, and he worked hard and quite successfully at obscuring the autobiographical threads that run through his novels. But they exist, and Richard Bradford traces the channels between Amis's experiences, his states of mind, and his fictionalized versions of both. Bradford's biography shows that it is impossible to offer a comprehensive picture of Amis the man as husband, philanderer, friend, father, jester, son, boozer, agnostic, pseudo-socialist, and club-land Tory without also considering how each dimension of his life tested and extended his literary skills. Sometimes he remodeled the present, particularly during the 1950s when his books reflected his double life as family man and prolific libertine. He revisited the past in novels such as The Riverside Villas Murder, a detective story that tells us much about his early relationship with his father. Less frequently he took revenge, notably with his cruel parody of his second wife Elizabeth Jane Howard in Stanley and the Women. Readers of Amis's books often feel as if they have had a personal encounter with a shadowy presence behind the words, and Bradford's biography embodies this shadow.

Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim Book PDF

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Viking
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : College teachers
ISBN : 0241956846

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Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis Pdf

'Lucky Jim' is the tale of university lecturer Jim Dixon who has to navigate the stumbling blocks of life at a red brick university, as he attempts to climb the social ladder to a moderately successful future.

Everyday Drinking

Kingsley Amis
Everyday Drinking Book PDF

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781608193165

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Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis Pdf

Here is the beloved, bestselling compendium of Kingsley Amis's wisdom on the cherished subject of drinking. Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) the book includes Amis's musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man's Diet, The Mean Sod's Guide, and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk-all leavened with fun quizzes on the making and drinking of alcohol all over the world. Mixing practical know-how and hilarious opinionation, this is a delightful cocktail of wry humor and distilled knowledge, served by one of our great gimlet wits.

The Art of Fiction

David Lodge
The Art of Fiction Book PDF

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137794

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The Art of Fiction by David Lodge Pdf

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

The Letters of Kingsley Amis

Zachary Leader
The Letters of Kingsley Amis Book PDF

Author : Zachary Leader
Publisher : Miramax Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786867574

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The Letters of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader Pdf

In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one of the Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a public image of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness of opinion until his death in 1995. In his letters, he confirms the legendary aspects of his reputation, and much more. This collection contains more than eight hundred letters that divulge the secrets of the artist and the man, with an honesty and immediacy rare in any biography or memoir. Amis, so assured in his pronouncements on fellow writers, grapples privately with fears, self-doubts, ambitions, and personal disasters. He is wildly funny, indulging in mordant gossip and astonishing frankness with his intimate friends and lovers. Some letters are dashed off with signature frustration; others are written with painstaking and painful circumspection. They make vivid the triumphs and tumult of his life and his times, from post-war Britain through the Thatcher era, as well as his attractions to women, jazz, drink, and the comic possibilities of the English language. As an intellectual pugilist who took no prisoners, Kingsley Amis had few peers. These letters, at times scandalous, at times tragic, reinforce his historical relevance and literary stature.

You Can't Do Both

Kingsley Amis
You Can t Do Both Book PDF

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446419847

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You Can't Do Both by Kingsley Amis Pdf

Robin Davies knows how to look after number one. Raised in a bland suburb of South London in the 1930s, Robin longs for the freedom to do what he wants. When he escapes to study in Oxford, he meets Nancy Bennett, a young woman even less worldly than himself. As Robin stumbles through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, war, seduction and the threat of commitment, we come to realise just how far he will go to have his cake and eat it.

Kingsley Amis

Eric Jacobs
Kingsley Amis Book PDF

Author : Eric Jacobs
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312186029

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Kingsley Amis by Eric Jacobs Pdf

Explores not only Amis's literary works but his outspoken personality, his praise for Thatcherism, and his devotion to whiskey

Inside Story

Martin Amis
Inside Story Book PDF

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735281318

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Inside Story by Martin Amis Pdf

Martin Amis's dazzling autobiographical novel of a unique literary life seen through the lens of friendships, family, sex and love, is wise, warm, heartbreaking and funny: the heart-to-heart testimony of an incomparable writer. This is the portrait of an extraordinary life lived by a great writer. Martin Amis leads us through boisterous romantic entanglements and literary friendships, the encompassing ties of family to generously revealing details about how to write (from the master of prose style), and finally to the intimate sorrow of a death closely felt. Inside Story had its birth in a death--that of the author's closest friend, the beloved thinker and writer Christopher Hitchens. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic conquests and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books and where to lunch), Hitchens was Martin's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral, unforgettable Phoebe Phelps--an obsession Martin must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness. We meet the literary giants who influenced him--his father Kingsley Amis, his hero Saul Bellow, the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin, and significant literary women, from Iris Murdoch to Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, Martin's quest is a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to be a husband and father, how to grieve, and how to die? In his search for answers, he surveys the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of 9/11 on the twenty-first, and considers what all this has taught him about how to be a writer. The result is a love letter to life and to the people in his life, which is simultaneously a wonder of literary invention--wise, meditative, heartbreaking, funny, and as engaging as a novel--that achieves a new level of confidentiality with readers.

Experience

Martin Amis
Experience Book PDF

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307368256

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Experience by Martin Amis Pdf

Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. He explores his relationship with his beloved father, novelist Kingsley Amis, and examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. Experience also dissects the literary scene, and includes Amis'portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, Robert Graves, and Ian McEwan, among others. Not since Nabokov's Speak, Memory has such an implausible life been recorded by such an inimitable talent.

The Old Devils

Kingsley Amis
The Old Devils Book PDF

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446414620

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The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis Pdf

Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.

Take a Girl Like You

Kingsley Amis
Take a Girl Like You Book PDF

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590177983

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Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis Pdf

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 squalor—emotional, material, sexual, you name it—of modern life. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in Amis’s rogue-ridden world: Jenny Bunn, a girl from the (English) north country come south to teach school in a small smug town where she hopes to find love and fortune. Jenny is a beauty and men and women are crazy about her, most of all handsome Patrick Standish, who Jenny also likes. But Jenny and Patrick live in a world where it’s becoming ridiculously difficult—disastrously difficult—to sort out the claims of sex and the claims of love.

The Alteration

Kingsley Amis
The Alteration Book PDF

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446414699

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The Alteration by Kingsley Amis Pdf

Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato - an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortune, but would also cut him off from an adult world he is curious to discover. In a dystopian world where Martin Luther never reformed and where the Holy Office's power is absolute, where will Hubert turn if he decides to defy their wishes?

Ending Up

Kingsley Amis
Ending Up Book PDF

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141961798

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Ending Up by Kingsley Amis Pdf

At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But the festive season does not herald goodwill to all at Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Disaster and chaos, it seems, are just around the corner ... Told with Amis's piercing wit and humanity, Ending Up (1974) is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age. With a new introduction by Helen Dunmore.

Memoirs

Kingsley Amis
Memoirs Book PDF

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446414668

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Memoirs by Kingsley Amis Pdf

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels abroad and his years as a successful novelist, Memoirs offers extraordinary insights into a unique literary life.