The Life of Kingsley Amis

The Life of Kingsley Amis
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 1034
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ISBN-10 : 9781446418161
ISBN-13 : 1446418162
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Book Synopsis The Life of Kingsley Amis by : Zachary Leader

Download or read book The Life of Kingsley Amis written by Zachary Leader and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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. Drawing not only on interviews with a range of Amis's friends, relatives, fellow writers, students and colleagues, many of them never before consulted, but also on hundreds of previously unpublished letters, Leader's biography will for the first time give a full picture of Amis's childhood, school days, life as a teacher, critic, political and cultural commentator, professional author, husband, father and lover. He explores Amis's fears and phobias, and the role that drink played in his life. And of course he pays due attention to Amis's work. As the editor of The Letters of Kingsley Amis, hailed in The Sunday Telegraph as 'one of the last major monuments to the epistolary art', Leader is more than qualified to be his authorised biographer. His book will surprise, entertain and illuminate.


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