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The Old Devils

Kingsley Amis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:5th Feb '04

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The Old Devils cover

Amis amazes at every turn - Mail on Sunday

Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.

A copy should be given out with every bus pass. -- John Sutherland * The Times *
A brilliant novel. It is sadly comic and comically sad -- Anthony Burgess
He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist -- John Mortimer
A bloody funny lovely bloody book... A genius at full throttle * Financial Times *
In these explicit days, Mr Amis is the laureate of the unsayable, the literary it man * Sunday Telegraph *

  • Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 1986 (UK)

ISBN: 9780099461050

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm

Weight: 277g

400 pages