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In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one of
the Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a public
image of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness of
opinion until his death in 1995. In his letters, he confirms the legendary
aspects of his reputation, and much more. This collection contains more than
eight hundred letters that divulge the secrets of the artist and the man,
with an honesty and immediacy rare in any biography or memoir.
Amis, so assured in his pronouncements on fellow writers, grapples privately
with fears, self-doubts, ambitions, and personal disasters. He is wildly
funny, indulging in mordant gossip and astonishing frankness with his
intimate friends and lovers. Some letters are dashed off with signature
frustration; others are written with painstaking and painful circumspection.
They make vivid the triumphs and tumult of his life and his times, from
post-war Britain through the Thatcher era, as well as his attractions to
women, jazz, drink, and the comic possibilities of the English language.
As an intellectual pugilist who took no prisoners, Kingsley Amis had few
peers. These letters, at times scandalous, at times tragic, reinforce his
historical relevance and literary stature.
About the Authors:
KINGSLEY AMIS was born in London in 1922. From his fictional debut with
Lucky Jim to his death in 1995, he published twenty-five novels and numerous
works of non-fiction, verse, volumes of short stories, and anthologies of
poetry and prose. He was also a prolific critic and polemicist in newspapers
and magazines. He was knighted in 1990.
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