Kingsley Amis: In Life and Letters - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312053657 ISBN 13: 9780312053659

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1991

Synopsis

A collection of essays edited by Professor Salwak whose publications include literary biographies of John Wain and A.J.Cronin. He also wrote reference guides to Kingsley Amis, John Braine, A.J.Cronin, Carl Sandburg and John Wain.

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Review

This is clearly the single indispensible guide to Amis's fiction, unlikely to be surpassed or superceded for many years to come...Salwak's study provides a concise, reliable, indispensible guidebook to Amis's oeuvre-an ideal Baedeker to Philistinia. World Literature Today ...a splendidly spacious, relaxed yet shrewd study of Amis's work. Lucid and very informative, it is ideally suited to the general reader. -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford World Literature Today Dale Salwak has skillfully and intelligently managed difficult terrain in his biographical treatment of Kingsley Amis...informed, well-focused and discerning... -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford Mfs It's...a good sign that...some recent books about Amis have been appearing. -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford The Hudson Review ...by far the most thorough yet written. CHOICE ...by far the most thorough yet written. CHOICE This is clearly the single indispensible guide to Amis's fiction, unlikely to be surpassed or superceded for many years to come...Salwak's study provides a concise, reliable, indispensible guidebook to Amis's oeuvre-an ideal Baedeker to Philistinia. World Literature Today ...a splendidly spacious, relaxed yet shrewd study of Amis's work. Lucid and very informative, it is ideally suited to the general reader. -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford World Literature Today Dale Salwak has skillfully and intelligently managed difficult terrain in his biographical treatment of Kingsley Amis...informed, well-focused and discerning... -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford Mfs It's...a good sign that...some recent books about Amis have been appearing. -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford The Hudson Review

About the Author

Dale Salwak is Professor of English at Southern California's Citrus College and the leading bibliographer of works by and about Kingsley Amis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0312053657
• ISBN 13: 9780312053659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: Salwak Dale