Kingsley Amis : modern novelist
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Kingsley Amis : modern novelist
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992
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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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