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Jacobs, Eric

Kingsley Amis: A Biography

St Martins Press, 1998

40,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1998
ISBN
0312186029
Luogo di stampa
New York
Autore
Jacobs, Eric
Editori
St Martins Press
Edizione
1st US Edition
Soggetto
KINGSLEY AMIS LITERATURE BIOGRAPY
Descrizione
Near Fine
Descrizione
H
Sovracoperta
Stato di conservazione
In ottimo stato
Legatura
Rilegato
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione

Descrizione

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.