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It's the early 1950s and even though rationing is still in place, everyone is starting to enjoy life again - everyone that is, except luckless Jim Dixon. Demobbed from the air force, Northern working class Jim gets a lousy job as a history tutor at a Southern second-rate university. he despairs at ever being lucky at work or lvoe until he falls head over heels for Christine . . .
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A brilliant and preposterously funny book (Guardian)
It has always made me laugh out loud . . . a flawless comic novel' (Helen Dunmore The Times)
A seminal campus novel (David Lodge)
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It has always made me laugh out loud . . . a flawless comic novel' (Helen Dunmore The Times)
A seminal campus novel (David Lodge)
The 1950s was the decade of post-war glamour, Barbie dolls, Pop Art and the Cold War. Britain celebrated the coronation of Elizabeth II and welcomed the Angry Young Men. The teenager was invented, rayguns were the toy of the moment, and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley changed the face of modern culture forever.
The publication of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim in 1954 was a landmark moment in British post-War fiction, with its anti-hero Jim Dixon and its hilarious satire on the British educational establishment. Jim is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer. His days are only improved by pulling faces behind the backs of his superiors as he tries desperately to survive provincial bourgeois society, an unbearable 'girlfriend' and petty humiliation at the hands of Professor Welch.
With a new introduction by David Nicholls
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0141006102
- ISBN 13 9780141006109
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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