Lucky Him: The Life of Kingsley Amis
Solid, well-written biography that sheds new light on the life and work of the famed British novelist. Kingsley Amis (1922-95) protested throughout his long career that his fictions were not autobiographical, though his readers, especially his students and university colleagues, took it as given that Jim Dixon, the protagonist of Amis's 1953 novel Lucky Jim, was the author's doppelganger. In fact, writes Bradford (English/Univ. of Ulster), Amis drew liberally from his own circumstances and the private lives of friends and colleagues to populate his novels, and the biographer pores over his oeuvre to sort out thickly veiled reality from happy…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7206-1117-5
- EAN: 9780720611175
- Produktnummer: 9317588
- Verlag: Peter Owen Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H22.3 cm x B14.1 cm x D3.8 cm 667 g
- Gewicht: 667
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