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The Green Man

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781446414576

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • RRP: £9.98

The Green Man

Like all good coaching inns, The Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. However, the landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malevolent Underhill. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic powers. All while the skeletons in Allington's own cupboard rattle to get out.

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781446414576

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • RRP: £9.98

Reviews

  • "A marvellous ghost story, shimmering with panic"

    Irish Times

  • "A splendid chiller [and] extremely funny book... Indeed, the success of this novel depends very much on the balance that Amis maintains between laughter and fear"

    New York Times

  • "Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities - including superb sexual comedy."

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis was born in London in 1922 and died in 1995. He wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories, but is best remembered as the novelist whose works offered a comic deconstruction of post-war Britain. Amis explored his disillusionment with British society in novels such as Lucky Jim (1954) and That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970), Stanley and the Women (1984), and The Old Devils (1986) which won the Booker Prize.

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