Ebook: The life of Kingsley Amis
Author: Zachary Leader
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Pantheon Books
- City: New York
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed
- Language: English
- epub
An authorized biography argues that Kingsley Amis was a dominant figure in post-war British writing in his roles as novelist, poet, critic, and polemicist, tracing his early years, as well as his life as a teacher, husband, and father.
Family --
Reading and writing --
City of London --
CLS at Marlborough --
Wartime Oxford --
The war --
Post-war Oxford --
Newly married: Oxford and Eynsham --
Swansea --
Making Lucky Jim --
Fame and friendship --
Uncertain feelings --
'Fun' --
Abroad --
Widening horizons --
Princeton --
Patrick and Dai --
Cambridge --
Waking beauty --
Break-up --
Divisions --
Lefties, toffs and bigots --
Lemmons --
Dissolution --
Nadir --
Return --
Ending up --
Afterlife.