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The Letters of Kingsley Amis By Kingsley Amis

The Letters of Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis


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In his letters to friends such as Philip Larkin and Robert Conquest, Kingsley Amis was able to unbutton himself to an extent impossible in work intended for publication, and as a result the more than 700 letters contained in this volume contain some of his wittiest and most acerbic writings.

The Letters of Kingsley Amis Summary

The Letters of Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis

Throughout his life, Sir Kingsley Amis was a prolific, and outrageous correspondent. In his letters to friends such as Philip Larkin and Robert Conquest he was able to unbutton himself to an extent impossible in work intended for publication, and as a result the more than 700 letters contained in this volume contain some of his wittiest and most acerbic writings. The letters reveal Amis's youthful dissatisfactions, which would be comically recreated in his successful first novel, "Lucky Jim"; his passionate love of jazz; his frequently caustic observations about the vicissitudes of family life; the painful breakdown of his first marriage, and the subsequent souring of his relationship with his second wife, the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard; and his development into one of the country's most revered - yet also uniquely controversial - literary figures. Seldom can any writer have provided such a

About Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley Amis was born in 1922. He was the author of twenty-two novels, as well as numerous collections of short stories and non-fiction writings, anthologies of poetry and prose, and books on subjects as diverse as drinking, James Bond and science fiction. His first, hugely successful, novel Lucky Jim was published in 1954, and in 1986 he won the Booker Prize for The Old Devils. He died in 1995.

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GOR001506872
9780002570954
0002570955
The Letters of Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
2000-05-15
1264
N/A
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