A brilliantly and preposterously funny book’ Guardian’A flawless comic novel … I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud’ Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain’s new red brick universities.
A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons – as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch’s, deliver a lecture on ‘Merrie England’ and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch’s awful son Bertrand. Inspired by Amis’s friend, the poet Philip Larkin, Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character, adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious world, in a witty campus novel that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life. With an introduction by David Lodge
Lucky Jim
R305
Format:
Paperback / softback
272 pages .. Classifications:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Estimated delivery dates: 20th June - 1st July
SKU: 9780141182599
Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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