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 167
... Look at those fools , look at that idiot of a man , " and so on . If doors got stuck , or he was held up by some elderly person getting off a bus , or the wind blew his hair all over the place , he would snarl and grimace in the most ...
... Look at those fools , look at that idiot of a man , " and so on . If doors got stuck , or he was held up by some elderly person getting off a bus , or the wind blew his hair all over the place , he would snarl and grimace in the most ...
Page 358
... Look Back in Anger , which is all scum and a mile wide . ' The review ends by calling Look Back in Anger ' the best young play of its decade ' . The New Statesman reviewer thought the play's subject ' the seamy side of the Kingsley Amis ...
... Look Back in Anger , which is all scum and a mile wide . ' The review ends by calling Look Back in Anger ' the best young play of its decade ' . The New Statesman reviewer thought the play's subject ' the seamy side of the Kingsley Amis ...
Page 693
... Looks better now the next such has begun ; Looks , and in this case maybe really is . It is partly loss of energy , the ... look as well as to sound like his father . Russian Hide - and - Seek reinforces the impression of Amis as disillu ...
... Looks better now the next such has begun ; Looks , and in this case maybe really is . It is partly loss of energy , the ... look as well as to sound like his father . Russian Hide - and - Seek reinforces the impression of Amis as disillu ...
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