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Lucky Jim. Kingsley Amis (Penguin Essentials)
Kingsley Amis
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Description for Lucky Jim. Kingsley Amis (Penguin Essentials)
Paperback. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without. If he can just deliver a lecture on Merrie England, a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never simple.. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 113 x 17. Weight in Grams: 152.
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'
Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend, Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England', a moderately successful career surely ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
272
Publication date
2012
Series
Penguin Essentials
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241956847
SKU
V9780241956847
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About Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis was born in London in 1922, educated at City of London School and St John's College, Oxford, and worked for a time as a university lecturer. Following the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954 he wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration (1976), The Old Devils (1986), winner of the Booker Prize, and The Biographer's Moustache (1995), which ... Read more
Reviews for Lucky Jim. Kingsley Amis (Penguin Essentials)
A brilliant and preposterously funny book
Guardian
It has always made me laugh out loud . . . a flawless comic novel'
Helen Dunmore
The Times
A seminal campus novel
David Lodge
Guardian
It has always made me laugh out loud . . . a flawless comic novel'
Helen Dunmore
The Times
A seminal campus novel
David Lodge