Kingsley Amis

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1) Lucky Jim, a novel

Author

Amis, Kingsley

Series

New York Review Books classics
Jim Dixon

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Originally published in 1954, this is the story of Jim Dixon, a young university instructor in England who had risen by a scholarship from a lower-middle-class background, only to find the more comfortable perches still occupied by the well-born.

2) The folks that live on the hill: a novel

Author

Amis, Kingsley

Pub. Date

[1990]

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He is Harry Caldecote, a retired librarian "unusually interested in relations between the sexes" and connoisseur of the pubs and wineshops of Primrose Hill. Harry's vision of retirement was one of "mild, relative penury relieved by idleness"; a chance to enjoy the freedoms of age and of the eighties. Instead, Harry feels responsible for everyone he knows, beginning with his henpecked brother Freddie, a has-been fifties poet whose prostate operation...