Kingsley Amis
Modern Novelist
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
Published:5th Jun '92
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This is a fascinating critical study of the life, work and milieu of one of Britain's best known and most popular novelists. Starting with a biographical overview of the influences on the developing writer while at home, at school, at Oxford, and at war, Dale Salwak goes on to offer the general reader a lively interpretation of all of Amis's novels, from Lucky Jim (1954) through to The Folks That Live on the Hill (1990), set against the ever-changing backdrop of the twentieth century.
This is clearly the single indispensible guide to Amis's fiction, unlikely to be surpassed or superceded for many years to come....Salwak's study provides a concise, reliable, indispensible guidebook to Amis's oeuvre-an ideal Baedeker to Philistinia. * World Literature Today *
...a splendidly spacious, relaxed yet shrewd study of Amis's work. Lucid and very informative, it is ideally suited to the general reader. -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford * World Literature Today *
Dale Salwak has skillfully and intelligently managed difficult terrain in his biographical treatment of Kingsley Amis....informed, well-focused and discerning... -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford * Mfs *
It's...a good sign that...some recent books about Amis have been appearing. -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford * The Hudson Review *
...by far the most thorough yet written. * CHOICE *
...by far the most thorough yet written. * CHOICE *
This is clearly the single indispensible guide to Amis's fiction, unlikely to be surpassed or superceded for many years to come....Salwak's study provides a concise, reliable, indispensible guidebook to Amis's oeuvre-an ideal Baedeker to Philistinia. * World Literature Today *
...a splendidly spacious, relaxed yet shrewd study of Amis's work. Lucid and very informative, it is ideally suited to the general reader. -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford * World Literature Today *
Dale Salwak has skillfully and intelligently managed difficult terrain in his biographical treatment of Kingsley Amis....informed, well-focused and discerning... -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford * Mfs *
It's...a good sign that...some recent books about Amis have been appearing. -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford * The Hudson Review *
ISBN: 9780389209928
Dimensions: 241mm x 162mm x 23mm
Weight: 590g
320 pages