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 77
... recalls a five - minute play Amis wrote in which the only words spoken were ' more toast ' , delivered ' with every conceivable emotion and emphasis ' by a cast of six . Amis reserved for himself the star part , that of a disgruntled ...
... recalls a five - minute play Amis wrote in which the only words spoken were ' more toast ' , delivered ' with every conceivable emotion and emphasis ' by a cast of six . Amis reserved for himself the star part , that of a disgruntled ...
Page 397
... recalls . ' He welcomed me and my cohort into the grown - up world . ' Rose , who became an English professor at Yale and then at the University of California , Santa Barbara , remembers Amis as ' charis- matic , constantly poking holes ...
... recalls . ' He welcomed me and my cohort into the grown - up world . ' Rose , who became an English professor at Yale and then at the University of California , Santa Barbara , remembers Amis as ' charis- matic , constantly poking holes ...
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... recalls . ' It was also quite frightening , on those lay - bys , you know , with weird drivers coming along . ' In Ann Arbor , Hilly and a friend had opened a fish and chips shop called Lucky Jim's ; in Ronda there was the tapas bar ...
... recalls . ' It was also quite frightening , on those lay - bys , you know , with weird drivers coming along . ' In Ann Arbor , Hilly and a friend had opened a fish and chips shop called Lucky Jim's ; in Ronda there was the tapas bar ...
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