- New York Times reviewed, Wales, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Man Booker Prize
"When Alun Weaver and his wife, Rhiannon, a famous beauty in her day, move into a quiet retirement community, they find it peopled by friends from former days."--Audio cassette container.
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Classical in form, contemplative, prestige and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 339
- Publisher
- VINTAGE (RAND), New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The, Summit Books
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099461050
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KingsleyAmis, the author of *Lucky Jim*, was born in the south of London in 1922. His first interest in literature was in the field of poetry. At the age of eleven he was writing verse, at the university he was one of the editors of *Oxford Poetry 1949*, and his own poetry has been published in two books: *A Frame of Mind* and *A Case of Samples*. His name is often to be seen in British newspapers and magazines as the writer of articles and reviews. Lucky Jim, published in 1954, was Amis's first novel. It was something so different, so fresh and so brilliantly clever that the critics welcomed it with excitement. Kingsley Amis is a university lecturer in English. In Lucky Jim he takes us into
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