The Life of Kingsley Amis
by Zachary Leader
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0099428423
- ISBN 13
- 9780099428428
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About This Item
Vintage, UK, 2007. First Edition. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 996 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Vintage, UK, 2007. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Edges of pages are lightly browned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. Drawing not only on interviews with a range of Amis's friends, relatives, fellow writers, students and colleagues, many of them never before consulted, but also on hundreds of previously unpublished letters, Leader's biography will for the first time give a full picture of Amis's childhood, school days, life as a teacher, critic, political and cultural commentator, professional author, husband, father and lover. He explores Amis's fears and phobias, and the role that drink played in his life. And of course he pays due attention to Amis's work. As the editor of 'The Letters of Kingsley Amis', hailed in the 'Sunday Telegraph' as 'one of the last major monuments to the epistolary art', Leader is more than qualified to be his authorised biographer. His book will surprise, entertain and illuminate. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780099428428. Inventory No: 19110037.. 9780099428428
Synopsis
Zachary Leader is Professor of English Literature at the Roehampton University. His books include On Modern British Fiction (2002) and Revision and Romantic Authorship (1999). His editing of Kingsley Amis’s Letters was described as “omniscient” by John Carey in the Sunday Times . From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19110037
- Title
- The Life of Kingsley Amis
- Author
- Zachary Leader
- Format/Binding
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0099428423
- ISBN 13
- 9780099428428
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Biography & Autobiography; The Life of Kingsley Amis
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- Biography & Autobiography;
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