Memoirs
by Amis, Kingsley
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0091745330
- ISBN 13
- 9780091745332
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
KINGSLEY AMIS was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford. At one time he was a university lecturer, a keen reader of science fiction and a jazz enthusiast. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, which has become a modern classic, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration ( 1976), winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils (1986), winner of the Booker Prize, and The Biographer's Moustache (1995), which was to be his last book. He published a variety of other works, including a survey of science fiction entitled New Maps of Hell (1960); Rudyard Kipling and His World (1975); The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981); Collected Poems (1979); and his Memoirs (1991). He wrote ephemerally on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in 1995.
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- Bookseller
- Goldring Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011262
- Title
- Memoirs
- Author
- Amis, Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0091745330
- ISBN 13
- 9780091745332
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography - English Authors;
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