Kingsley Amis : modern novelist

Author(s)

• Salwak, Dale

Bibliographic Information

Kingsley Amis : modern novelist

Dale Salwak

Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992

Note

Bibliography: p. 293-295

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A study of Kingsley Amis' life and career, drawing its material from his books, interviews, notebooks, letters, marginalia, juvenalia and manuscripts. The first part describes the influences of the developing writer, while the second part analyzes Amis' novels in their order of publication.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 The early years (1922-1939). Part 2 Oxford and the War years (1940-1947). Part 3 A promising young novelist (1946-1953). Part 4 A comic world (1954-1958): "Lucky Jim" (1954)
• the "angry young man" in retrospect
• "That Uncertain Feeling" (1955)
• "I Like It Here" (1958). Part 5 A dimmer view (1959-1960): "Take A Girl Like You" (1960). Part 6 Disillusionment (1961-1968): "One Fat Englishman" (1963)
• "The Anti-Death League (1966)
• "I Want It Now" (1968). Part 7 A nightmare world (1969-1974): "The Green Man" (1969)
• "Girl, 20" (1971)
• "The Riverside Villas Murder" (1973)
• "Ending Up" (1974). Part 8 The Destruction of Beliefs (1975-1980): "The Alteration" (1976)
• "Jake's Thing" (1978)
• "Russian Hide-and Seek" (1980). Part 9 The perspective of years: "Stanley and the Women" (1984)
• "The Old Devils" (1986)
• "Difficulties with Girls" (1988)
• "The Folks That Live on the Hill" (1990).

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Details

• NCID: BA18912900
• ISBN:
  • 0745010962
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 302p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 823.914
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Amis, Kingsley, 1922-