The Biographer's Moustache by Amis, Kingsley - 1995

London: Flamingo, 1995. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. The book is in very good condition though with some light tanning of the pages. The dust jacket is also very good with jst a very small amount of shelf wear along the top edge and some discolouration to the spine. Gordon Scott-Thompson, a struggling hack, gets commissioned to write the biography of veteran novelist, Jimmie Fane. It is a task which proves to be fraught with extraordinary and unforeseen difficulties. Fane, an unashamed snob, has many pet hates, including younger men with moustaches and trendy pronunciation. Amis's keen eye for the nuances of class difference has never been put to sharper use. Deliciously wicked and delightfully mischievous, tis tale mercilessly exposes a literary world of pretension and vanity while poignantly revealing the potential for love across the social divide.