¿Quién es Yna? ¿Por qué su diario íntimo, crónica de su enamoramiento de Alejandro en 1990, ha aparecido en un contenedor de Zaragoza? La protagonista de Estaré sola y sin fiesta no puede evitar hacerse...
KNGSLEY AMIS (1922-1995) fue un destacado miembro fundacional del errático grupo literario denominado The Movement, ?de los jóvenes airados?, cuyas tesis supondrían una clara oposición a la estética modernista impulsada...
Jim Dixon se encuentra en una situación delicada. No sabe si va a poder conservar su puesto de profesor de Historia Medieval en la universidad, ya que para ello tendría que publicar un artículo que le granjeara la admiración...
Stanley Duke se adentra plácidamente en la edad madura. Nada parece importunar su vida acomodada hasta que, de repente, su hijo Steve se vuelve loco. A partir de ese momento, Stanley se ve acosado por las mujeres que le rodean: Nowell, su primera...
Esta recopilación reúne por primera vez y en un solo volumen la totalidad de la prosa breve de Kingsley Amis, uno de los más reconocidos maestros de la edad de oro de la narrativa inglesa. Un agente literario es víctima de un...
In That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite, Elizabeth Gruffyd-Williams...
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'
Kingsley Amis wrote short stories throughout his five decades as a published novelist, some of them character or situation sketches which stand next to the novels, others daring experimentations with genre. For the first time these stories are collected...
Soon after Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) published his first novel, Lucky Jim, in 1954, he became an object of literary and journalistic scrutiny. This attention would continue until his last days, four decades and forty books later. This book of interviews...
First published in 1954, this book is a hilarious satire of British university life. It is a young man's book, in fact a book of two young men. They are not exactly angry young men, but they are extremely irritable. College friends with similar background...