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Kingsley Amis was born on 16 April 1922 in Clapham, south London, the only child of William Robert Amis (1889–1963), a clerk – "quite an important one, fluent in Spanish and responsible for exporting mustard to South America" – for the mustard manufacturer Colman's in the City of London, [3] and his wife Rosa Annie (née Lucas).
Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz.It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.
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Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim: 1954 Kingsley Amis: The Anti-Death League: 1966 James Baldwin: Another Country: 1962 J. G. Ballard: The Unlimited Dream Company: 1979 John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy: 1966 Saul Bellow: The Victim: 1947 Saul Bellow: Humboldt's Gift: 1975 Elizabeth Bowen: The Heat of the Day: 1949 Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man: 1975 John ...
Reginald Ashley Caton (1897–1971) was an English publisher. He appears as a literary character, especially in novels by Kingsley Amis.. In 1924, he founded the Fortune Press in London, specialising in gay erotica.
The 1970 Associated Press story claimed it would be Amis's next book. However, in a 1968 letter to Robert Conquest , Amis clearly states that it would only be a short story. [ 11 ] Amis also approached Glidrose with an idea for a Bond short story that would have featured a 70-year-old Bond coming out of retirement for one final mission, but ...
"What slightly spoils this diatribe, however, is that to prepare for it I went back to Kingsley Amis’s novels and enjoyed myself more than was convenient for my purposes. Jake’s Thing , for instance, famously rancid with misogyny, turns out, on re-reading, to be surprisingly tender in parts, and intensely moving on the humiliations of ...
Amis called him, in a letter to Philip Larkin (10 July 1955) - 'very amiable in a childish way, which is a heap better than some mature ways' - 'he doesn't quite know which country he belongs to - he is a motor-bike maniac, endlessly discussing the engine of his German motor-scooter ("This is one of the only twelve that were ever put on the ...