Lucky Jim
€15.00
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780141182599 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kingsley Amis |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.206 |
| Publishing Date | 25/05/2000 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €14.15 |
| Tax | €0.85 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €15.00 |
| Availability | 13 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
''A brilliantly and preposterously funny book'' Guardian
''A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud'' Helen Dunmore, The Times
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain''s new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch''s, deliver a lecture on ''Merrie England'' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch''s awful son Bertrand. Inspired by Amis''s friend, the poet Philip Larkin, Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character, adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious world, in a witty campus novel that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life.
With an introduction by David Lodge