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Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.
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"A copy should be given out with every bus pass." (John Sutherland The Times)
"A brilliant novel. It is sadly comic and comically sad" (Anthony Burgess)
"He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist" (John Mortimer)
"A bloody funny lovely bloody book... A genius at full throttle" (Financial Times)
"In these explicit days, Mr Amis is the laureate of the unsayable, the literary it man" (Sunday Telegraph)
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"A brilliant novel. It is sadly comic and comically sad" (Anthony Burgess)
"He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist" (John Mortimer)
"A bloody funny lovely bloody book... A genius at full throttle" (Financial Times)
"In these explicit days, Mr Amis is the laureate of the unsayable, the literary it man" (Sunday Telegraph)
Amis amazes at every turn - Mail on Sunday
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0140101330
- ISBN 13 9780140101331
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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Old Devils
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