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...ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. This year's liveliest comic novel dissects the endless ploys of a rich and artful British self-seeker to discomfit the U.S. colonials and get the girl...
...ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. The author's best novel since Lucky Jim tells of a self-satisfied English libertine, and how some unawed Americans let the air out of his ballooning...
...ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. The author's best novel since Lucky Jim tells of a self-satisfied English libertine and how some unawed Americans let the air out of his ballooning...
...alienation of the individual, the decline of the aristocratic tradition, the nastiness of the mass, the calamitous Christian duality of soul and body, and almost everything else that could be considered a factor in the decline of the West. Given a Norman Mailer of their own after years of Kingsley Amis, many British critics praised Storey wildly, some of them using the dread word "major...
...ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. A rich, arrogant British libertine comes to an Eastern university town to renew his affair with a faculty wife, is hilariously thwarted and discomfited at every turn by the colonials he scorns...