| The Life of Kingsley Amis | | | Author:
| Leader, Zachary | | ISBN: | 978-0-8101-2759-3 | | Publication Date: | May 2011 | | Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
| | Book Format: | Paperback | | List Price: | USD $25.95 | Book Description:
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Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but also a dominant figure in post-World War II British writing as a novelist, poet, critic, and polemicist. Zachary Leader's definitive, authorized biography conjures in vivid detail the life of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century literature, renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness of opinion.
Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but also a dominant figure in post-World War II British writing as a novelist, poet, critic, and polemicist. Zachary Leader's definitive, authorized biography conjures in vivid detail the life of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century literature, renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness of opinion.
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