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Amid preparations for Operation Apollo, secret agent Brian Leonard meet James Churchill who has "gone round-the-bend for a parole from the mental ward," "a widowed beauty ..., an unfocused psychiatrist, an unbelieving chaplain, and a charming alcoholic."--Container.
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Classical in form, cool, unpretentious and raw.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- First published
- January 1966
- Pages
- 307
- Publisher
- Penguin, Books On Tape, Harcourt (1966).
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780736614061
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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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