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Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis's witty campus novel Lucky Jim is a comedy that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life This Penguin Modern Classics edition contains an introduction by David LodgeJim 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 worldKingsley Amis (1922-1995) born in London
wrote poetry criticism and short stories but is best remembered as the novelist whose works offered a comic deconstruction of post-war Britain Amis explored his disillusionment with British society in novels such as Lucky Jim (1954) and 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 PrizeIf you enjoyed Lucky Jim you might like Amis's The King's English also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A flawless comic novel I loved it then as I do now It has always made me laugh out loud'Helen Dunmore The Times'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book'Guardian
wrote poetry criticism and short stories but is best remembered as the novelist whose works offered a comic deconstruction of post-war Britain Amis explored his disillusionment with British society in novels such as Lucky Jim (1954) and 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 PrizeIf you enjoyed Lucky Jim you might like Amis's The King's English also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A flawless comic novel I loved it then as I do now It has always made me laugh out loud'Helen Dunmore The Times'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book'Guardian
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