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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... young people . You will agreee peee46 it's a fallacy that old people are interested in the concerns of young people . They don't want to hear what the young say . They want to make the young hear what they say . More of a triumph to bore a ...
... young people . You will agreee peee46 it's a fallacy that old people are interested in the concerns of young people . They don't want to hear what the young say . They want to make the young hear what they say . More of a triumph to bore a ...
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... young chap and young lady , and that nearly all the people I should meet in this crazy life would be far more boring and crappy , which made me feel sad and frightened incidentally old boy . ' This fear we shall return to . What matters ...
... young chap and young lady , and that nearly all the people I should meet in this crazy life would be far more boring and crappy , which made me feel sad and frightened incidentally old boy . ' This fear we shall return to . What matters ...
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... Young Men . When John Osborne's Look Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court in May 1956 , Kenneth Tynan began his review of it in the Observer by citing the Maugham attack on Amis . The review begins : " " They are scum , " was Mr ...
... Young Men . When John Osborne's Look Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court in May 1956 , Kenneth Tynan began his review of it in the Observer by citing the Maugham attack on Amis . The review begins : " " They are scum , " was Mr ...
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