The Green Man
$30.09
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2004
Summary
‘Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities - including superb sexual comedy’ Sunday Times
Like all good coaching inns, The Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost - Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. However, the landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malevolent Underhill. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill’s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099461074 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099461072 |
| Author: | Kingsley Amis |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 173g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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Critics Review
A marvellous ghost story, shimmering with panic
A marvellous ghost story, shimmering with panic * Irish Times *
A splendid chiller [and] extremely funny book… Indeed, the success of this novel depends very much on the balance that Amis maintains between laughter and fear * New York Times *
Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities - including superb sexual comedy. * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John’s College, Oxford. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils, winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, and The Biographer’s Moustache, which was to be his last book. He also wrote on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in October 1995.
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