Editions

Memoirs

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099461067

  • Length: 400  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 369g

  • RRP: £14.99

Memoirs

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels abroad and his years as a successful novelist, Memoirs offers extraordinary insights into a unique literary life.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099461067

  • Length: 400  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 369g

  • RRP: £14.99

Reviews

  • Endlessly entertaining... Good, rollicking stuff, and a delight to read... Sir Kingsley Amis is surely one of the funniest men alive

    Sunday Telegraph

  • Horribly enjoyable... The chief feeling is shame at laughing quite so much

    Independent on Sunday

  • Kingsley Amis's funniest book since Lucky Jim. It's humour is heart-warmingly malicious

    Sunday Times

  • He is nasty about people that have amply deserved it one way or the other; he deflates pretension; he exposes doublethink...he also excels in hailing poets and truepennies

    Guardian

  • Amis can be sharp and even brutal as well as funny and indiscreet...he has evidently written Memoirs with relish

    Sunday Telegraph

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About the Author

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils, winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, and The Biographer's Moustache, which was to be his last book. He also wrote on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in October 1995.

Kingsley Amis

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