The Folks That Live On The Hill (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Amis, Kingsley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141194308 ISBN 13: 9780141194301

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threatens to emulate Wordsworth, when his son's lesbian lodger is beaten up by her girlfriend. He endures misplaced seductions, swindles and aggressive dogs just to keep the peace at the King's pub in Shepherd's Hill. But when the Adams' Institute of Cultural and Commercial History in America offers him the opportunity to do 'whatever he wanted to do' in a picturesque lakeside town, he faces a choice between freedom or responsibility - and whether to take charge of his own life.

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Review:

Like Waugh he is a consummate writer of sentences, a mordant practitioner of perfected English prose ... Amis's gift for outrage is as alert as ever (Independent)

Sometimes sharply funny, sometimes bluntly genial, altogether the most successful book he has written for years (Sunday Times)

About the Author:

Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970), Stanley and the Women (1984), and The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141194308
• ISBN 13: 9780141194301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320