Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Amis Kingsley
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
 List Price: Price: $5.79 You Save: $4.21 (42%) DescriptionHere is the beloved, bestselling compendium of Kingsley Amis's wisdom on the cherished subject of drinking. Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) the book includes Amis's musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man's Diet, The Mean Sod's Guide, and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk—all leavened with fun quizzes on the making and drinking of alcohol all over the world. Mixing practical know-how and hilarious opinionation, this is a delightful cocktail of wry humor and distilled knowledge, served by one of our great gimlet wits.
The Old Devils: A Novel
 List Price: Price: $248.66 DescriptionMalcolm Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife Rhiannon.
Lucky Jim
 List Price: Price: $55.25 DescriptionJim Dixon is a young University History Lecturer in his probationary year. Unfortunately, he despises his eccentric mentor, Professor Welch. The situation worsens when Jim becomes romantically involved with Christine, the desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son, Bertrand!Although Kingsley Amis's acid satire of postwar British academic life has lost some of its bite in the four decades since it was published, it's still a rewarding read. And there's no denying how big an impact it had back then--Lucky Jim could be considered the first shot in the Oxbridge salvo that brought us Beyond the Fringe, That Was the Week That Was, and so much more. In Lucky Jim, Amis introduces us to Jim Dixon, a junior lecturer at a British college who spends his days fending off the legions of malevolent twits that populate the school. His job is in constant danger, often for good reason. Lucky Jim hits the heights whenever Dixon tries to keep a preposterous situation from spinning out of control, which is every three pages or so. The final example of this--a lecture spewed by a hideously pickled Dixon--is a chapter's worth of comic nirvana. The book is not politically correct (Amis wasn't either), but take it for what it is, and you won't be disappointed.
Memoirs
 List Price: Price: $12.80 You Save: $12.20 (49%) DescriptionWritten in one of the few unmistakenly literary voices of our time, Amis' Memoirs have already created a furor in England. Amis writes without inhibition about Roald Dahl, Anthony Burgess, Francis Bacon, Malcolm Muggeridge, and many others. Amis' memiors are rich, hilarious, and wicked--written with tremendous verve about Oxford, the literary life, and Mrs, Thatcher--and give us a completely unvarnished portrait of him.Amis Kingsley News
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The Movement Reconsidered; edited by Zachary Leader | Book review when Robert Conquest edited the poetry collection New Lines and put into it the work of nine authors: Kingsley Amis, Conquest himself, Donald Davie,