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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... Bruce Montgomery , whom he only got to know properly after the war . Montgomery , the son of a civil servant in the India Office , was educated at Merchant Taylors ' School ( like Ellingham ) and came from a middle - class background ...
... Bruce Montgomery , whom he only got to know properly after the war . Montgomery , the son of a civil servant in the India Office , was educated at Merchant Taylors ' School ( like Ellingham ) and came from a middle - class background ...
Page 259
... Bruce Montgomery . This collaboration , for a one - act chamber opera , derived from a commission by the Arts Council and promised both recognition and pay . At first , the opera was to have five singing parts , then four . By 8 January ...
... Bruce Montgomery . This collaboration , for a one - act chamber opera , derived from a commission by the Arts Council and promised both recognition and pay . At first , the opera was to have five singing parts , then four . By 8 January ...
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... Bruce Montgomery accompanied him for parts of the trip , which involved dinners with the Bardwells , at All Souls ... Montgomery's club , the IMA ( Inter- national Musicians ' Association ) , called by Amis ' the most drunken institution ...
... Bruce Montgomery accompanied him for parts of the trip , which involved dinners with the Bardwells , at All Souls ... Montgomery's club , the IMA ( Inter- national Musicians ' Association ) , called by Amis ' the most drunken institution ...
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