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The Old Devils

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  • ENGLISH

    Language
  • 384

    Pages
  • 9780140101331

    ISBN
  • 110 mm

    Width
  • 176 mm

    Height
  • 211 gram

    Weight
  • THE

    Edition
  • PAPERBACK

    Binding
  • 15 OCTOBER 1987

    Publish Date
  • 21 mm

    Spine Width

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    Description

    Do people ever really grow up? The old devils in this book are just as they have always been, but trapped in a slowly aging body. It's like living in a house that needs repair, but the repairman never comes. When Alun Weaver and his wife, Rhiannon, a famous beauty in her day, move into a quiet retirement community, they find it peopled by friends from former days. Suddenly Do people ever really grow up? The old devils in this book are just as they have always been, but trapped in a slowly aging body. It's like living in a...  Read More

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    Kingsley Amis

    Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He fathered the English novelist .

    Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham, Wandsworth, Couty of London (now South London), England, the son of William Robert Amis, a mustard manufacturers clerk. He began his education at the City of London School, and went up to St. Johns College, Oxford April 1941 to read English; it was there that he met Philip Larkin, with whom he formed the most important friendship of his life. After only a year, he was called up for Army service in July 1942. After serving in the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World War, Amis returned to Oxford in October 1945 to complete his degree. Although he worked hard and got a first in English in 1947, he had by then decided to give much of his time to writing.

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