Ending up

Author(s)

• Amis, Kingsley
• Dunmore, Helen

Bibliographic Information

Ending up

Kingsley Amis ; with an introduction by Helen Dunmore

（Penguin modern classics, . Fiction）

Penguin, 2011

• : pbk

Note

"Published in Penguin classics 2011"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But the festive season does not herald goodwill to all at Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Disaster and chaos, it seems, are just around the corner ... Told with Amis's piercing wit and humanity, Ending Up (1974) is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB06068347
• ISBN:
  • 9780141194233
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 112 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 823.914
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Older people -- England -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Christmas -- England -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Families -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Black humor
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00548998