Research Catalog

Title

The letters of Kingsley Amis / edited by Zachary Leader.

Author

Amis, Kingsley

Publication

New York : Hyperion, c2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Leader, Zachary

Description

lvi, 1212 p., [32] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Spanning over fifty years, the letters open with Amis as a young undergraduate at Oxford, energetically advising a fellow recruit not to abandon the Communist Party, and end with him as one of the country's pre-eminent men of letters, with a public image - not altogether accurate, but not discouraged by Amis himself - as an arch-conservative. Along the way they trace the frustrations and discontents of his life as a penniless research student and lecturer (dazzlingly recreated in his first novel, Lucky Jim, which earned him his early reputation as 'redbrick' novelist and 'angry young man'); his ambivalent relations with the most influential poetical grouping of post-war Britain, the Movement; his lifelong enthusiasms for jazz, whisky, science fiction, limericks and the English language; his frequently savage opinions of the merits of other writers, alive and dead; his womanising and the breakdown of his two marriages; and the day-to-day workings of his life as a professional writer."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Correspondence. Selections

Alternative Title

Correspondence.

Subject

• Amis, Kingsley
• 1900-1999
• Novelists, English > Great Britain > 20th century > Correspondence

Genre/Form

Personal correspondence

Note

• "Talk Miramax books."
• First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Poems Included in Amis to Philip Larkin, 30 March 1947 -- 'All Aboard the Gravy Train: Or, Movements Among the Younger Poets', by 'Ron Cain' -- 'View Galloo! Or, Ivan in the Shires', by 'Jasper Budenny' -- 'To Rosie' -- 'Kipling at Bateman's' -- Funeral Address for Philip Larkin -- 'Bottoms' -- Three Alibi Notes -- Two Letters to Robert Conquest -- 'The Watcher in Spanish' -- Three 'Bunny' Notes (Undated household notes to Elizabeth Jane Howard, c. 1969-77).

ISBN

0786867574

OCLC

• 48453938
• SCSB-11879674

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library