Two Novels by Kingsley Amis
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Overview: Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham, Wandsworth, Couty of London (now South London), England, the son of William Robert Amis, a mustard manufacturer’s clerk. He began his education at the City of London School, and went up to St. John’s College, Oxford April 1941 to read English; it was there that he met Philip Larkin, with whom he formed the most important friendship of his life. After only a year, he was called up for Army service in July 1942. After serving in the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World War, Amis returned to Oxford in October 1945 to complete his degree. Although he worked hard and got a first in English in 1947, he had by then decided to give much of his time to writing.
Genre: Fiction; General
The Riverside Villas Murder
A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneauxs living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection. but the eccentric Colonel Manton does. With Peters help the Colonel unravels a mystery that strikes fear into the heart of a genteel suburban neighbourhood and gives Peter rather more excitement than he bargained for at the tennis club social. This meticulously paced thriller shows Amis at his most subtle and daring.
I Want it Now
The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich. but how do you do this if you arent yet rich TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two continents in the company of braying aristocrats. Greek shipping magnates. American dandies and the dreaded mother-in-law to be. But as he comes closer to his prize other questions present themselves. Is the androgenous Simona really worth it Why doesnt she like sex Is it possible to drink all day With his unerring eye for absurdity and class satire Kingsley Amis shows us what happens when money meets naked ambition.
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