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Lucky Jim

Pages
251
Published
1998
Language
English

Synopsis

Meet Jim Dixon, a history lecturer at a provincial university who's utterly bored with his job and his life. This satirical debut novel from Kingsley Amis skewers the absurdities of academic life and the awkwardness of young adulthood. Follow Jim as he navigates a joyless relationship and tries to find his place in a world he finds increasingly ridiculous.

About the author

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Kingsley Amis

KingsleyAmis, the author of Lucky Jim, was born in the south of London in 1922. His first interest in literature was in the field of poetry. At the age of eleven he was writing verse, at the university he was one of the editors of Oxford Poetry 1949, and his own poetry has been published in two books: A Frame of Mind and A Case of Samples. His name is often to be seen in British newspapers and magazines as the writer of articles and reviews. Lucky Jim, published in 1954, was Amis's firs...

Characters

Margaret PeelSupporting
All characters in Lucky Jim