A Kingsley Amis Omnibus: "Jake's Thing", "Stanley and the Women" and "The Old Devils". - Hardcover

Amis, Kingsley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091727197 ISBN 13: 9780091727192

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1992

Synopsis

An omnibus containing three Kingsley Amis novels - "Jake's Thing", "Stanley and the Women" and "The Old Devils", which won the 1986 Booker Prize for Fiction.

About this title

About the Author:

Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils, winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, and The Biographer's Moustache, which was to be his last book. He also wrote on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in October 1995.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0091727197
• ISBN 13: 9780091727192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 628