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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... Amis was unfussed : ' I can't say I blame them , ' he confessed in January 1956 to an American admirer ; sales of Lucky Jim had ' failed to top 2000 ' . + The firm that took Amis over from Doubleday was Harcourt Brace ... Kingsley Amis • •
... Amis was unfussed : ' I can't say I blame them , ' he confessed in January 1956 to an American admirer ; sales of Lucky Jim had ' failed to top 2000 ' . + The firm that took Amis over from Doubleday was Harcourt Brace ... Kingsley Amis • •
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Zachary Leader. In August 1989 the American academic Dale Salwak sent Amis the complete typescript of Kingsley Amis : Modern Novelist , his third book on Amis's life and writing . A year later , not having heard from Amis , he asked him ...
Zachary Leader. In August 1989 the American academic Dale Salwak sent Amis the complete typescript of Kingsley Amis : Modern Novelist , his third book on Amis's life and writing . A year later , not having heard from Amis , he asked him ...
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... Amis's papers . The Amis Collection in the Huntington consists of 1,211 catalogued items , plus ephemera ( Call ... Kingsley Amis are from Zachary Leader , ed . , The Letters of Kingsley Amis ( London : HarperCollins , 2000 ) where ...
... Amis's papers . The Amis Collection in the Huntington consists of 1,211 catalogued items , plus ephemera ( Call ... Kingsley Amis are from Zachary Leader , ed . , The Letters of Kingsley Amis ( London : HarperCollins , 2000 ) where ...
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