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Memoirs

By: Kingsley Amis
Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
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Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis' 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.
©1991 Kingsley Amis (P)2020 Penguin Audio
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"Endlessly entertaining.... Good, rollicking stuff, and a delight to read.... Sir Kingsley Amis is surely one of the funniest men alive." (Auberon Waugh, Sunday Telegraph)

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Finely read recollections of a literary life

Some of it I feel compiled from earlier works including his letters. Uplifting in the sense you can - just - feel like you could almost achieve what Kingsley did. Depressing in the sense that it is so dated, and feels almost a world away. Don’t let that pull you off. Anecdotes galore abound about the intellectual and literary life. I admire Kingsley in that he was never afraid to come to judgment - and quite good judgments usually. He had his foibles as do we all. Some of his put downs are savage and worth the price of admission alone. It’s a great book and wonderfully read (when sped up).

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