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The Russian Girl
by Amis, Kingsley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ /J Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0670853291
- ISBN 13
- 9780670853298
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Viking [1994]. 1994. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. F 1st US ed. Used. H Hard Cover. Very Good+. VG+/VG+ 8vo DJ 296pp
Synopsis
Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. At one time he was a university lecturer, a keen reader of science fiction and a jazz enthusiast. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, which has become a modern classic, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration (1976), winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils (1986), winner of the Booker Prize, and The Biographer's Moustache (1995), which was to be his last book. He published a variety of other work, including a survey of science fiction entitled New Maps of Hell (1960); Rudyard Kipling and His World (1975); The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981); Collected Poems (1979); and his Memoirs (1991). He wrote ephemerally on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Many of his books are published by Penguin. In 1995 Eric Jacobs published Kingsley Amis , a biography of the distinguished writer, on which Amis himself collaborated. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. After his death in October 1995, Keith Waterhouse described him as 'a great storyteller, although he was much more than a storyteller,' while John Mortimer wrote: 'He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist.'
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Details
- Bookseller
- Vashon Island Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W014292
- Title
- The Russian Girl
- Author
- Amis, Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- H Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- J Very Good+
- Edition
- F 1st US ed. Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670853291
- ISBN 13
- 9780670853298
- Publisher
- Viking [1994]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Fiction fiction english fiction first editions
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