Do you think he didn’t know?
Stefan Collini: Kingsley Amis, 14 December 2006
The Life of Kingsley Amis
by Zachary Leader.
Cape, 996 pp., £25, November 2006,0 224 06227 1 Show More
by Zachary Leader.
Cape, 996 pp., £25, November 2006,
“... High Modernism. This audience has been characterised in various ways – young, Penguin-reading, ex-services, ‘provincial’ – but was united by a delight in seeing ordinary human appetites and fallibilities treated sympathetically in fiction. The characteristic tone of the writing was, in a phrase Amis the reviewer used in speaking of one of the ... ”