![]() John’s College, Oxford on a scholarship where he began a lifelong friendship with poet Philip Larkin. Lucky Jim is considered by many critics to be his best comic novel.Īccording to the biography in my copy, Kingsley Amis was a novelist, poet, and critic widely regarded as one of the greatest satiric writers of the 20th century. I knew about Kingsley Amis through the Booker Prize, which he won in 1996. Every morning I am greeted with a novel, biography, history, or poetry for my reading pleasure. One fun source of books for my staggering TBR pile is Workman Publishing’s “Page a Day Calendar for readers. I’m Jim McKeown, welcome to Likely Stories, a weekly review of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and biographies. ![]() One of the great comic novels of the 20th century. ![]()
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