Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim
originally published:
London : Gollancz
1954
We offered this copy of the first American edition, with a dustwrapper illustration by Edward Gorey, in our Catalog 84.
awards:
- Burgess 99(1954)
- First Book(1954)
- Somerset Maugham Award(1955)
- Time Magazine 100 Novels(1954)
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bio notes:
born: 4/16/1922
died: 10/22/1995
born as: Kingsley William Amis
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.
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