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Jacobs, Eric

Kingsley Amis: A Biography

St Martins Press, 1998

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Year of publication
1998
ISBN
0312186029
Place of printing
New York
Author
Jacobs, Eric
Publishers
St Martins Press
Edition
1st US Edition
Keyword
KINGSLEY AMIS LITERATURE BIOGRAPY
Cover description
Near Fine
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

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. For better or worse, Amis was known almost as much for his personality as for his work as a novelist-for his outspoken nature (one columnist called him "a literary Rottweiler"), his unfashionable praise for Thatcherism, and his devotion to whiskey-and in this, the only authorized biography of Amis, Eric Jacobs skilfully 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. Crisp copy looks unread 394p.+ plates [B & W] bibliography, index.