The Old Devils - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014016653X ISBN 13 : 9780140166538

Editeur : Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

In 1986, the author was awarded the Booker Prize for this novel which is a tragi-comedy about middle-aged Welsh people approaching old age and sobriety. The author also wrote "Lucky Jim", "Stanley and the Women", "Russian Hide and Seek" and "The Riverside Villas Murder".

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils, winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, and The Biographer's Moustache, which was to be his last book. He also wrote on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in October 1995.

Revue de presse

"A brilliant novel. It is sadly comic and comically sad" (Anthony Burgess)

"He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist" (John Mortimer)

"A bloody funny lovely bloody book... A genius at full throttle" (Financial Times)

"In these explicit days, Mr Amis is the laureate of the unsayable, the literary it man" (Sunday Telegraph)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 014016653X
• ISBN 13: 9780140166538
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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