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A retired librarian and devoted club member, Harry Caldecote's plans to enjoy his golden years are undermined by his overwhelming sense of responsibility--toward his ex-wives, bullied brother, ne'er-do-well son, lesbian daughter, and alcoholic niece
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Another example of the new, mellower Amis, who wrote the bestselling (in Britain) The Old Devils , this is a pleasant, rambling, sometimes touching tale of Harry Caldecote, a retired library executive, and the assorted people in his life. These include Fiona, a self-destructive alcoholic related to one of his former wives; Bunty, the daughter of another, who is in an unhappy lesbian relationship; his ineffectual brother Freddie, married to a termagant; Clare, his capable but unambitious sister; and Piers, his son, a witty, elusive cadger. In his bemused way Harry worries about all of them, does his best for them and only very occasionally succeeds in bettering their lot. The character sketches are sharp, Amis's habitual misogyny is very muted, and there are even a couple of sympathetic and sophisticated Asian shopkeepers. A much kinder book than most of his work, then, but with the same sense of muddle and pitifully limited horizons we have come to associate with the Amis world. And the oddities of his style increasingly are coming to seem as carefully stylized, and classic in their way, as those of P. G. Wodehouse.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0140104348
- ISBN 13 9780140104349
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages250
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