The Old Devils - Softcover

Amis, Kingsley And Conquest, Robert

 
9780140166538: The Old Devils

Synopsis

In 1986, the author was awarded the Booker Prize for this novel which is a tragi-comedy about middle-aged Welsh people approaching old age and sobriety. The author also wrote "Lucky Jim", "Stanley and the Women", "Russian Hide and Seek" and "The Riverside Villas Murder".

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Review

"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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Amis amazes at every turn - Mail on Sunday

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