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 144
... Elisabeth tells Archer about her husband : how they'd known each other since childhood ; how his parents and hers were friends and encouraged them to get married ; how they were married at eighteen , when he was on leave from Dunkirk ...
... Elisabeth tells Archer about her husband : how they'd known each other since childhood ; how his parents and hers were friends and encouraged them to get married ; how they were married at eighteen , when he was on leave from Dunkirk ...
Page 146
... Elisabeth . ' That Elisabeth never knew of the confrontation between Amis and his father is suggested in ' Ecstasy ' , the second of the three chap- ters of ' Who Else Is Rank ' to deal with the affair . Elisabeth asks Archer what his ...
... Elisabeth . ' That Elisabeth never knew of the confrontation between Amis and his father is suggested in ' Ecstasy ' , the second of the three chap- ters of ' Who Else Is Rank ' to deal with the affair . Elisabeth asks Archer what his ...
Page 147
... Elisabeth won't be there . When he finally sees her , ' I felt my heart plunge and the blood rush to my face , and I realised to my annoy- ance that I was shaking . ' He had not seen Elisabeth in over a year and she looked ' more ...
... Elisabeth won't be there . When he finally sees her , ' I felt my heart plunge and the blood rush to my face , and I realised to my annoy- ance that I was shaking . ' He had not seen Elisabeth in over a year and she looked ' more ...
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