Published for the first time in 1954, Kingsley Ami’s Lucky Jim was an instant hit and remains alongside Robert Conquest’s anthology New Lines and the poetry of Larkin, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn et al as one of the defining texts of the Movement. Yet by intention he is a seriously comic writer, one who apparently means to say something about society.” Julian Gustave Symons in the TLS, September 1955. He can write about things like a car running down a slope, or coal being broken up under the stairs, in such a way that they seem uproariously funny. His dialogue is brilliant, his timing of comic situations could hardly be bettered. “Mr Amis is the rarest of writers, one who can make us laugh. Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis, (St Ives: Penguin, 1963)
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