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The Old Devil.(Kingsley Amis)(Biography)
Every country's difficult literary guys are different, and you know from experience how to handle the kind you've grown up with. Reading Geoffrey Wolff's excellent biography of the truly ornery American writer John O'Hara, you sense that you could have managed him, for one night, with a mixture of office-adultery gossip and writerly mumblings about advances and sales. But when you come to the super-ornery English novelist Kingsley Amis you realize that you have no idea what you could possibly have said to get through an evening. Office gossip would be bound to hit a clunker, publishing talk would seem vulgar: this is a writer who devotes an entire chapter of his memoirs to ...
- Belated Kingsley Amis Helped Redefine English Lit
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered October 23, 1995 700+ words
...the stylings of British author Kingsley Amis, who died this weekend. Kingsley...WERTHEIMER, Host: British author Sir Kingsley Amis died yesterday in London where...Literary Establishment was hailing Kingsley Amis as one of the great comic novelists...
- Obituary: Sir Kingsley Amis
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London David Lodge October 23, 1995 700+ words
Kingsley Amis was the most gifted of the British novelists...entertain as well as instruct. The career of Kingsley Amis crystalises, without resolving, a perennial...Hegelian "world-historical sense". Kingsley Amis was born, ironically enough, in 1922...
- Kingsley Amis versus Vladimir Nabokov.(The English Novel in the Twentieth...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Bruce, Donald November 1, 1996 700+ words
...this low atavistic form'. Kingsley Amis had in his critical writings no...eminently 'go on' about Venice! Kingsley Amis comes more and more to resemble...be followed by the comments of Kingsley Amis: She adored brilliant water and...
- The afterlife of Kingsley Amis
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London JOAN SMITH October 28, 1995 700+ words
...evening, as news of the death of Sir Kingsley Amis spread through the literary world...aftermath of his or her death. "Sir Kingsley Amis, giant of literature, dies at...Guardian was more cautious, hailing Amis as a "comic master" and leaving...
- A thoughtful look at 'The Life of Kingsley Amis'.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 12, 2007 700+ words
...observation by the English novelist, poet, critic and teacher Kingsley Amis in his vast authorized biography The Life of Kingsley Amis. The point is that interspersed throughout Amis's fiction - from the early comedy of "Lucky Jim" to the outrageous...
- Richard Bradford. Lucky Him: the Life of Kingsley Amis.(Book Review)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Bien, Peter June 22, 2002 700+ words
...DO WE NEED ANOTHER biography of Kingsley Amis so soon after Eric Jacobs's...publication in 2002 of The Letters of Kingsley Amis, edited by Zachary Leader. These bring to light much more about Amis's private life. But the author...
- MR MISOGYNY; His ex-wife says Kingsley Amis saw women as 'pests' and called...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) Jacobs, Eric June 17, 2002 700+ words
Byline: ERIC JACOBS WHEN Kingsley Amis burst on the scene as an Angry...Elizabeth Jane Howard, the novelist Amis used to call his 'second ex...Howard is right in saying that Kingsley Amis turned altogether against women...
- Kingsley Amis surprises with honest feeling
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times MOORE, George August 25, 1996 700+ words
YOU CAN'T DO BOTH, by Kingsley Amis, Flamingo, $19.95. Reviewed by GEORGE MOORE SOME...are preceded by their reputations, and the late Kingsley Amis' reputation is fixed firmly in everyone's mind. He...
