Kingsley Amis produced many short stories throughout his five decades as a published novelist; some of them character sketches which stand next to the novels, others daring experimentations with genre.
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.
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*
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