The Life of Kingsley AmisIn this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. |
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Page 27
... Amis's last novel . It is dumbfounding that he became a restaurant critic at the end of his life . - Amis's mother's main realm was the kitchen , and she wasn't under- nourished . Philip Amis's sole memory of his paternal grandmother is ...
... Amis's last novel . It is dumbfounding that he became a restaurant critic at the end of his life . - Amis's mother's main realm was the kitchen , and she wasn't under- nourished . Philip Amis's sole memory of his paternal grandmother is ...
Page 361
... Amis's publisher , invited several supposed Angries ( aside from Amis , Osborne and Wilson among the original four , these included Kenneth Tynan , Lindsay Anderson , Bill Hopkins , Stuart Holroyd , John Wain and Doris Lessing , a lone ...
... Amis's publisher , invited several supposed Angries ( aside from Amis , Osborne and Wilson among the original four , these included Kenneth Tynan , Lindsay Anderson , Bill Hopkins , Stuart Holroyd , John Wain and Doris Lessing , a lone ...
Page 369
... Amis's university friends , acquaintances and superiors were aware of his changed status and circumstances , also of his changing views . David Quinn has described Amis's claim in Socialism and the Intellectuals that he would always ...
... Amis's university friends , acquaintances and superiors were aware of his changed status and circumstances , also of his changing views . David Quinn has described Amis's claim in Socialism and the Intellectuals that he would always ...
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