Complete Stories - Softcover

Amis, Kingsley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141195290 ISBN 13: 9780141195292

Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics, 2013

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-04 Pages: 528 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark. playful. moving. surprising and extremely funny This. definitive collection gathers all Amiss short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In The 2003 Claret. written in 1958. a time machine is invented for the weighty task of sending a man to 2010 to discover what the booze will taste like. In Boris and the Colonel a Cambridge spy is unearthed in the sleepy English countryside with the help of a plucky horse. while In Masons Life two men meet inside their respective dreams. The collection spans many genres. offering ingenious alternative histories . mystery and horror. satirical reflections and a devilishly funny attacks. Amiss stories reveal the...

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About the Author

Kingsley Amis' (1922-1995) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially of the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment with British society in novels such as THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING (1955). His other works include THE GREEN MAN (1970); STANLEY AND THE WOMEN (1984); and THE OLD DEVILS (1986) which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories.Rachel Cusk was born in 1967. She has won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and is the author of two works of non-fiction and seven novels, including In The Fold, longlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, and Arlington Park, shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize 2007. Her non-fiction book, A Life's Work, was published to huge acclaim in 2001, and her account of a summer spent in Italy with her family, The Last Supper, was published in 2009. Her most recent novel, The Bradshaw Variations was published in 2009. In 2003 she was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young Novelists. She lives in Brighton.

Review

A key figure in postwar British culture, whose importance and influence cannot be measured ... distinctive and original -- David Lodge 'Among the English comic masters of the twentieth century' * Guardian * A ceaselessly fresh and adorable body of work ... exasperation made poetry -- Julie Burchill Kingsley Amis was a big, humane novelist, interested in all manner of people very unlike himself -- Philip Hensher

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0141195290
• ISBN 13: 9780141195292
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416