I received an ARC of this title from the publisher.In this comedy about old age, Amis provides us with a geriatric cast of characters living under the same roof who are basically trying to stay as comfortable and happy as possible before they die. There are five septuagenarians in total, three m...
Kingsley Amis' sole horror novel, "The Green Man," had long been on my list of "must read" books, for the simple reason that it has been highly recommended by three sources that I trust. British critic David Pringle chose it for inclusion in his overview volume "Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novel...
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when professional Welshman, Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon, join them.
‘The year is 1976 and we are living in a Europe-that-might-have-been. It is a Europe that never underwent the Reformation of the 16th century, peopled by – among others – Monsignor Jean-Paul Sartre, a Jesuit theologian and Heinrich Himmler, a papal envoy… and Hubert Anvil, a faultless boy soprano...
Sad, but humorous in many places and insightful about women, who should not read this book. It should be remembered that it is written in the first person, which means that what the main character is saying and thinking is just that - the character, and not necessarily the author. Some reviewers ...
I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I think Amis’ Lucky Jim is about as perfect a comic novel as there can be. Using that touchstone, I found Girl, 20 and Jake’s Thing fun reads but inferior. One Fat Englishman gets the same rating, entertaining—albeit disturbingly—but not of the caliber of the cynosure th...
تصور می کنم این ناشی از خودبینی من بوده،اما خب جالبه. احساس می کنم تونستم انتقامم رو از مردمی که در این سال ها مرا جلو بردند و چاپلوسیم رو کردن تا تمام این سال ها رو تلف کنم، بگیرم.کینگزلی امیس کتاب نثری ساده و روان دارد.نام کتاب برگفته از شعری با عنوان "نامتولد" در همین کتاب است:عطرها یا سوخته ...