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Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
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- 9781590175750
- UPC
- 9781590175750
- ISBN
- 9781590175750
- MPN
- N/A
- Book Title
- Lucky Jim
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Humorous / Black Humor, Satire, Literary
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 10.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 296 Pages
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A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature. Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that "there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones." Kingsley Amis's scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy. More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy postwar manners, Lucky Jim is an attack on the forces of boredom, whatever form they may take, and a work of art that at once distills and extends an entire tradition of English comic writing, from Fielding and Dickens through Wodehouse and Waugh. As Christopher Hitchens has written, "If you can picture Bertie or Jeeves being capable of actual malice, and simultaneously imagine Evelyn Waugh forgetting about original sin, you have the combination of innocence and experience that makes this short romp so imperishable."
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590175751
ISBN-13
9781590175750
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113159458
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lucky Jim
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Humorous / Black Humor, Satire, Literary
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6001.M6l8 2012
Reviews
" Lucky Jim illustrates a crucial human difference between the little guy and the small man. And Dixon, like his creator, was no clown but a man of feeling after all." - Christopher Hitchens "Mr. Kingsley Amis is so talented, his observation is so keen, that you cannot fail to be convinced that the young men he so brilliantly describes truly represent the class with which his novel is concerned....They have no manners, and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public bar and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious....They are scum." - W. Somerset Maugham "'After Evelyn Waugh, what?' this reviewer asked six years ago....The answer, already, is Kingsley Amis, the author of Lucky Jim ....Satirical and sometimes farcical, they are derived from shrewd observation of contemporary British life, and they occasionally imply social morals.... Lucky Jim is extremely funny. Everyone was much amused, and since it is also a kind of male Cinderella or Ugly Duckling story, it left its readers goo-humored and glowing." --Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker , 1956 "I was recommended [Kinglsey Amis' Lucky Jim ] when I was a teenager trying to figure out how to start reading 'serious' books. Great recommendation, because on the surface it's nothing of the sort, but it is brilliant." --Hugh Dancy, T: The New York Times Style Magazine "Remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension, Lucky Jim also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language." --Olivia Laing, The Observer "Remarkably, Lucky Jim is as fresh and surprising today as it was in 1954. It is part of the landscape, and it defines academia in the eyes of much of the world as does no other book, yet if you are coming to it for the first time you will feel, as you glide happily through its pages, that you are traveling in a place where no one else has ever been. If you haven't yet done so, you must." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post, " Lucky Jim illustrates a crucial human difference between the little guy and the small man. And Dixon, like his creator, was no clown but a man of feeling after all." - Christopher Hitchens "Mr. Kingsley Amis is so talented, his observation is so keen, that you cannot fail to be convinced that the young men he so brilliantly describes truly represent the class with which his novel is concerned....They have no manners, and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public bar and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious....They are scum." - W. Somerset Maugham "'After Evelyn Waugh, what?' this reviewer asked six years ago....The answer, already, is Kingsley Amis, the author of Lucky Jim ....Satirical and sometimes farcical, they are derived from shrewd observation of contemporary British life, and they occasionally imply social morals.... Lucky Jim is extremely funny. Everyone was much amused, and since it is also a kind of male Cinderella or Ugly Duckling story, it left its readers goo-humored and glowing." --Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker , 1956 "Remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension, Lucky Jim also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language." --Olivia Laing, The Observer "Remarkably, Lucky Jim is as fresh and surprising today as it was in 1954. It is part of the landscape, and it defines academia in the eyes of much of the world as does no other book, yet if you are coming to it for the first time you will feel, as you glide happily through its pages, that you are traveling in a place where no one else has ever been. If you haven't yet done so, you must." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post, " Lucky Jim illustrates a crucial human difference between the little guy and the small man. And Dixon, like his creator, was no clown but a man of feeling after all." Christopher Hitchens "Mr. Kingsley Amis is so talented, his observation is so keen, that you cannot fail to be convinced that the young men he so brilliantly describes truly represent the class with which his novel is concerned….They have no manners, and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public bar and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious….They are scum." W. Somerset Maugham "'After Evelyn Waugh, what?' this reviewer asked six years ago….The answer, already, is Kingsley Amis, the author of Lucky Jim ….Satirical and sometimes farcical, they are derived from shrewd observation of contemporary British life, and they occasionally imply social morals…. Lucky Jim is extremely funny. Everyone was much amused, and since it is also a kind of male Cinderella or Ugly Duckling story, it left its readers goo-humored and glowing." -- Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker , 1956 "Lucky Jimis an extremely interesting first novel, and parts of it are very funny indeed: the episodes of the bed-burning and Jim's public lecture, for instance, mount to the complexity and tension of certain passages in the Marx Brothers' films or in the paper-hanging act one still sees from time to time in pantomime. And Mr Amishas an unwaveringly merciless eye for the bogus: some aspects of provincial culture - the madrigals and recorders of Professor Welch, for instance - are pinned down as accurately as they have ever been; and he has, too, an eye for character - the female lecturer Margaret, who battens neurotically on Jim's pity, is quite horribly well done. Mr Amisis a novelist of formidable and uncomfortable talent."-Walter Allen, The New Statesmen , 1954 "Remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension, Lucky Jim also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language." Olivia Laing, The Observer "Remarkably, Lucky Jim is as fresh and surprising today as it was in 1954. It is part of the landscape, and it defines academia in the eyes of much of the world as does no other book, yet if you are coming to it for the first time you will feel, as you glide happily through its pages, that you are traveling in a place where no one else has ever been. If you haven't yet done so, you must." Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post, " Lucky Jim illustrates a crucial human difference between the little guy and the small man. And Dixon, like his creator, was no clown but a man of feeling after all." - Christopher Hitchens "Mr. Kingsley Amis is so talented, his observation is so keen, that you cannot fail to be convinced that the young men he so brilliantly describes truly represent the class with which his novel is concerned....They have no manners, and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public bar and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious....They are scum." - W. Somerset Maugham "'After Evelyn Waugh, what?' this reviewer asked six years ago....The answer, already, is Kingsley Amis, the author of Lucky Jim ....Satirical and sometimes farcical, they are derived from shrewd observation of contemporary British life, and they occasionally imply social morals.... Lucky Jim is extremely funny. Everyone was much amused, and since it is also a kind of male Cinderella or Ugly Duckling story, it left its readers goo-humored and glowing." --Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker , 1956 "I was recommended [Kinglsey Amis' Lucky Jim ] when I was a teenager trying to figure out how to start reading 'serious' books. Great recommendation, because on the surface it's nothing of the sort, but it is brilliant." --Hugh Dancy, T: The New York Times Style Magazine "Remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension, Lucky Jim also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language." --Olivia Laing, The Observer "Remarkably, Lucky Jim is as fresh and surprising today as it was in 1954. It is part of the landscape, and it defines academia in the eyes of much of the world as does no other book, yet if you are coming to it for the first time you will feel, as you glide happily through its pages, that you are traveling in a place where no one else has ever been. If you haven't yet done so, you must." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2012-016599
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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