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 304
... friends or the partners of friends , engaging in various couplings , including , at least once , a threesome . Out of one of these couplings grew Amis and Hilly's belief , firm though never corroborated by tests , that Sally was not ...
... friends or the partners of friends , engaging in various couplings , including , at least once , a threesome . Out of one of these couplings grew Amis and Hilly's belief , firm though never corroborated by tests , that Sally was not ...
Page 391
... friends the Amises made in their year at Princeton . John McAndrew was forty - six in 1958 , ten years older than Amis . He came from a working - class family in Youngstown , Ohio , trained as a lawyer , but after the war went into ...
... friends the Amises made in their year at Princeton . John McAndrew was forty - six in 1958 , ten years older than Amis . He came from a working - class family in Youngstown , Ohio , trained as a lawyer , but after the war went into ...
Page 710
... friends and contacts in London , among them Amis's friend Simon Raven , and could count on their hospitality . Bringing the family with him while he scouted out prospects , however , would be diffi- cult . Until he found a place ' where ...
... friends and contacts in London , among them Amis's friend Simon Raven , and could count on their hospitality . Bringing the family with him while he scouted out prospects , however , would be diffi- cult . Until he found a place ' where ...
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