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Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Penguin Modern Classics
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Publisher | Penguin Modern Classics |
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ISBN | 9780141182599 |
Publication date | May 2000 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Pages | 272 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Exhibition | Penguin Modern Classics |
Description
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.
Lucky Jim