The Crime of the Century

New York: The Mysterious Press, (1989).

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Hardcover. Second American printing. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Item #303873
ISBN: 0892963980

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Item #303873 The Crime of the Century. Kingsley AMIS.

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