The Russian Girl
by Amis, Kingsley
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0091745365
- ISBN 13
- 9780091745363
- Seller
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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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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0214025
- Title
- The Russian Girl
- Author
- Amis, Kingsley
- Illustrator
- Jean-Paul Tibbles -- dust Jacket
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0091745365
- ISBN 13
- 9780091745363
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- BZDB2 novel, battle of the sexes, love, Integrity Literature & Literary; Jean-Paul Tibbles -- dust Jacket Unbranded ISBN: 0091745365 EAN: 9780091745363 Amis, Kingsley The Russian Girl
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