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 170
... Margaret , who was three years older , was already in the senior school , as was Mick , who was five years older ( Bill and Brian were long gone , being thirteen and ten years older respectively ) . Margaret has no memory of Barbara ...
... Margaret , who was three years older , was already in the senior school , as was Mick , who was five years older ( Bill and Brian were long gone , being thirteen and ten years older respectively ) . Margaret has no memory of Barbara ...
Page 271
... Margaret , a char- acter based on Monica Jones , whose full name was Margaret Monica Beale Jones . It was at Larkin's insistence that Veronica Beale's name in the first version was switched to Margaret Peel . Amis at first wanted it ...
... Margaret , a char- acter based on Monica Jones , whose full name was Margaret Monica Beale Jones . It was at Larkin's insistence that Veronica Beale's name in the first version was switched to Margaret Peel . Amis at first wanted it ...
Page 272
... Margaret . Margaret is neurotic and unsuitable but Jim cannot extricate himself from their ' relationship ' ( in quot- ation marks because he can never quite figure out how or when it started ) . ' He'd been drawn into the Margaret ...
... Margaret . Margaret is neurotic and unsuitable but Jim cannot extricate himself from their ' relationship ' ( in quot- ation marks because he can never quite figure out how or when it started ) . ' He'd been drawn into the Margaret ...
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