The Russian Girl

New York: Viking, 1994.

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Hardcover. First American. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Remainder Mark. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

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Kingsley Amis
birth name: Kingsley William Amis
born: 4/16/1922
died: 10/22/1995

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Biography

Novelist, poet, critic, and teacher who created in his first novel, Lucky Jim (1954; film, 1957), a comic figure who became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s. Amis was generally grouped among the angry young men, though he denied the affiliation. He was the father of writer Martin Amis.more