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Anthony Burgess included The Anti-Death League in his 1984 book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice. Amis died in 1995, and his obituaries mention the novel at least in passing. [10] [11] [12] Zachary Leader, in his 2006 book The Life of Kingsley Amis, did no more than summarise his own idea of the subject ...
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).
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"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 ...
The 20 best books of the year, ranked. Martin Chilton. December 14, 2024 at 6:56 AM. ... 16. ‘The Body in the Library’ by Graham Caveney. Graham Caveney’s latest memoir, a moving and ...
The book's coda, set in 1991, fifteen years after the events of the main body of the book, reveals that events have turned out as the Pope planned. Europe's surplus population has become cannon fodder for the war, which ended in a narrow victory although the Ottoman Empire got as far as Brussels .
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 ...
The Golden Age of Science Fiction is an anthology of science fiction short stories all originally published between 1949 and 1962. The stories were selected and introduced by Kingsley Amis (1922-1995), who also wrote an Editor's Note and a 21-page Introduction.