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Lucky Jim: Kingsley Amis (Penguin Modern Classics)
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AMIS, KINGSLEY
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ISBN: 9780141182599
Author: AMIS, KINGSLEY
'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 – but only if he can navigate a series of hilarious and awkward challenges:
- Staving off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret.
- Surviving a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's.
- Delivering a lecture on 'Merrie England.'
- Resisting 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. This witty campus novel skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life with sharp humor and insight.
With an introduction by David Lodge
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