Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threatens to emulate Wordsworth, when his son's lesbian lodger is beaten up by her girlfriend.
Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment 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.
Like Waugh he is a consummate writer of sentences, a mordant
practitioner of perfected English prose ... Amis's gift for outrage
is as alert as ever
*Independent*
Sometimes sharply funny, sometimes bluntly genial, altogether the
most successful book he has written for years
*Sunday Times*
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