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THE RUSSIAN GIRL.

THE RUSSIAN GIRL.

THE RUSSIAN GIRL.
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THE RUSSIAN GIRL.

by AMIS**, KINGSLEY:

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ISBN 13
9780091745363
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£14.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustration to a white background dw/dj,with red+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband,and immaculate plain blue eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-296pp [paginated] includes 21 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,separate title separator page,and 2pp blanks at the rear. Kingsley Amis's new novel begins like an academic romp but soon takes off into territory which Amis has made triumphantly his own - the battle of the sexes and the conflicting claims of love and integrity.Richard Vaisey is a respected scholar,a good chap who perhaps enjoys slightly too much being 'a bit of a professor'.So far he has managed to survive the ministrations of Cordelia,his manipulating wife.But then he falls for Anna, a Russian poet and dissident whose flamboyant personal appeal makes the awfulness of her verse.A petition is being organized which will safeguard her brother,imprisoned in the disintegrating Soviet Union.But Richard is clear-eyed about the quality of her work.Will he sign? And what effect will his decision have on his marriage,his job,and his life? This is a love story,but as always with Amis,it develops through a variety of wickedly funny scenes and characters.For several books the 'Old Devil' has been at the very top of his form,and 'The Russian Girl' is as entertaining and thought provoking as anything Amis has written. Want more Kingsley AMIS titles? For similar and other available fiction and non-fiction titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS and MODERN FIRSTS2 catalogues. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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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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Title
THE RUSSIAN GIRL.
Author
AMIS**, KINGSLEY:
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0091745365
ISBN 13
9780091745363
Publisher
LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1992.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1992
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