The Letters of Kingsley Amis - Hardcover

Amis, Kingsley; Zachary Leader (ed.)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002570955 ISBN 13: 9780002570954

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000

Synopsis

as new, unread, pp. 1208, b/w illustrations, "spanning over 50 years, this volume provides a moving, scandalously funny, warts-and-all self-portrait of one of our finest and most-missed writers."

About this title

About the Author:

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. ZACHARY LEADER is professor of English literature at the University of Surrey Roehampton. Among his books are Reading Blake's Songs, Writer's Block, and Revision and Romantic Authorship. He lives in London, and is a regular contributor to The London Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement.

Review:

"Beautifully organized and annotated...Some of the best of Amis, it turns out, is in his letters." -- The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0002570955
• ISBN 13: 9780002570954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1264