The Biographer's Moustache [electronic resource]
Amis, Kingsley2014
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Gordon Scott-Thompson, a struggling hack, gets commissioned to write the biography of veteran novelist, Jimmie Fane. It is a task which proves to be fraught with extraordinary and unforeseen difficulties.
Fane, an unashamed snob, has many pet hates, including younger men with moustaches and trendy pronuncation. Scott-Thompson, however, is extrememly attached to his own moustache and not so particular about his use of language. It doesn't help matters that Fane's wife Joanna isn't yet sure what she feels about coustaches, but has decided views on younger men.
Main title:
The Biographer's Moustache [electronic resource] / Kingsley Amis
Author:
Amis, Kingsley, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Kingsley Amis was born in South London in 1922, and educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. Between 1949 and 1963 he taught at the University College of Swansea, Princeton University and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He started his writing career as a poet, but it is for his novels that he is best loved, for works including Lucky Jim, Take a Girl Like You ,The Anti-Death League, Jake's Thing, Stanley and the Women, The Old Devils, The Green Man, Difficulties with Girls, the Folks That Live on the Hill and You Can't do Both. The Old Devils won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1986. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and knighted in 1990. He died in October 1995.
ISBN:
9780007393084
Language:
English
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BRN:
2303072