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Kingsley Amis
An interesting article here abut his short stories:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...ughing-at.html The complete short stories are available for Kindle, but fairly pricey. Nowadays his son Martin may be better known, but Kingsley was a literary lion of his day. He was a very close friend of the poet Philip Larkin. They first met as undergraduates at Oxford and met frequently and corresponded thereafter. |
06-05-2011, 08:56 AM | #2 |
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Great article, thanks for posting the link. I lurve Kingsley Amis. I'm mostly familiar with his comic novels and Lucky Jim is one of my favorite academic satires, but I don't know his short stories at all, a situation that needs to be redressed.
I'd rather read Kingsley than Martin any day. Martin is a pretentious twit compared to his dad. |
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That exactly the same scene that first comes to mind when I think of the book. I actually read it out to a reading group once, much to their dismay...
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I too share your memories of Time's Arrow! Really didn't need that little detail thrown in.
Thanks for the recommendation for Night Train - it sounds interesting. |
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I've never read the son, but I've loved what I've read from Kingsley Amis — mostly his comic and espionage-ish novels. He made it look easy.
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He wrote a sort of sci-fi book (really an alternative-history book) that is very good, called The alteration.
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