Summary
This best-selling comic novel by Kingsley Amis, one of the "Angry Young Men" who came to prominence in the early 1950s, describes the frustrations met by Jim Dixon, a lecturer at a provincial British university, in his academic and private life. Approaching middle age and as yet unpublished, untenured, and unattached, Dixon needs most of all to impress Professor Welch, his department head, but is more concerned with winning over Christine, the beautiful girlfriend of Welch's obnoxious son, Bertrand. Immensely popular when first published in 1955, LUCKY JIM influenced an entire school of academic novelists, from David Lodge to A.N. Wilson.
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"I do not remember having laughed so much at a funny book as I have at Lucky Jim." -- John Betjeman
"He was writing in a new and fresh way-it's a great comedy. He absolutely captured the tone of the times..." -- Malcolm Bradbury
"Written with the cool, detached, sardonic style which is the trademark of the British satirical novelist, 'Lucky Jim' is funny in something approaching the Wodehouse vein, but it cuts a bit deeper." -- Edmund Fuller
-- New York Times
"A highly unusual first novel by a young English writer who is endowed with, and in control of, more than his share of talent, humor, and human sympathy."
-- New Yorker
"Mr. Amis has enough understanding of the importance and mechanism of social comedy to make his book not only very promising but also extremely enjoyable in its own right."
-- Times Literary Supplement
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Curley Large Print
Published date: 1993
Pages: 441
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