The Life of Kingsley Amis

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Jonathan Cape, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 996 pages
In 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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Family
1
Reading and Writing
35
City of London
52
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Zachary Leader is Professor of English Literature at the University of Surrey, Roehampton.His books include On Modern British Fiction (2002) and Revision and Romantic Authorship (1999). His editing of Kingley Amis's Letters was described as 'omniscient' by John Carey in the Sunday Times, 'wondrously thorough' by Ian Hamilton in the LRB, and 'exemplary' by David Lodge in the TLS.

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