The Life of Kingsley Amis - Rilegato

Leader, Zachary

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ISBN 10: 0375424989 ISBN 13: 9780375424984

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 2007

Riassunto

An authorized biography of the seminal British writer argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing in his roles as novelist, poet, critic, and polemicist, tracing his early years, as well as his life as a teacher, critic, political and cultural commentator, professional author, husband, father, and lover. 15,000 first printing.

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Praise from the United Kingdom:

“This is a book of true stature about a complex talent. Few literary biographies can match it for depth and intimacy.”
–The Sunday Times

“Outstanding . . . Leader has surpassed himself . . . He gives us not only the man, but also his milieu; he gives us not only the compelling virtues but also the staggering flaws. This is the best biography I have read for ages: deeply researched, crisply written and beautifully judged.” –The Daily Telegraph

“Elegantly organised, lovingly detailed and–how could it not be?–eruptively funny, Zachary Leader’s book is hard to put down.”
–New Statesman

“Marvellous . . . It has become a fashion to denounce long biographies as telling us more than we need to know, but Leader’s is a triumphant vindication of its nine-hundred-plus pages. It’s a pleasure to read, and the accumulation of detail gives a real sense of a life being led.”
–The Independent

“Marvellous . . . I ought to say that this book is two hundred pages too long, but as I enjoyed almost every word of it, I can’t.”
–The Spectator

“Very thorough and very straight-talking. It’s also very clear in its aims. [Leader] displays the facts of each matter plainly, allowing readers to deliver their own praise and blame, and counterbalances them with his attention to the work. It’s an impressively well-judged response.” –The Guardian

“Full, perceptive and admirably even-handed . . . Considered as a narrative of the growth and decay of character, Leader’s biography starts to assume the features of an Aristotelian tragedy.” –London Review of Books

“My admiration for Leader’s skill as a biographer is unalloyed. It’s a big book, but the interest never flags.”
–The Sunday Telegraph

L'autore:

Zachary Leader is a professor of English literature at Roehampton University in England. Among his books are studies of Romantic poetry and modern British fiction. Leader edited The Letters of Kingsley Amis (“One of the last major monuments of the epistolary art.”
–The Sunday Telegraph).

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• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0375424989
• ISBN 13: 9780375424984
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 996