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	1	Jacobs, Eric. (Kingsley Amis.) KINGSLEY AMIS: A BIOGRAPHY. St. Martin's Press, New York, (1998), Ist U.S. edition. 392 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos. "Kinglsey Amis arrived on the English literary scene with the publication of his classic novel, 'Lucky Jim' in 1954, and few writers since have provoked such wildly disparate degrees of laughter, admiration, and contempt in the reading public. For better or worse, Amis was known almost as much for his personality as for his work as a novelist - for his outspoken nature (one columnist called him a 'literary rottweiler'), his unfashio n a b l e p raise for Thatcherism, and his devotion to whiskey - and in this, the only athorized biography of Amis, Eric Jacobs skillfully captures that personality with sympathetic detail and healthy doses of Amisian wit. Amis's life was in turns b ot h tr ag i c and triumphant, and from it Jacobs manages to spin a narrative that mirrors the sprightliness and originality of his subject's work." Two soft wrinkles at top of preliminaries - from maunfacturing process. Dust jacket has light e dge wr in kli ng, l ig ht rubbing. VG/VG Price: 10.00 USD
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	2	Amis, Kingsley. THE ALTERATION. Viking Press, New York, 1977, first U.S. edition. 210 pp, 8vo (8 9/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0670115223 "The year is 1976, and Stephen III, King of England, has lately died. Mozart's Second Requiem (K.878) is being sung at the Cathedral Basilica of St. George at Coverley (pronounce d Cowley) for the laying-to-rest of the monarch. Above choir and orchestra soars the faultless boy soprano voice of Hubert Anvil. It is a once-in-a-century talent. Although he cannot yet know it, today's performance before a brilliant intern a t i o n al congregation - including two emissaries of the Holy Office - will alter his destiny but save his voice if certain of his elders have their way. In the world-as-we-know-it the last such castrato died in 1922, but this is another world a lt og et he r, spared the Reformation back in the sixteenth century when Martin Luther became Pope. As Hubert is made aware of what may be in store for him, some unsuspected allies, including his father's not-so-celibate chaplain and the New Engla nde r a mba ssa dor spring up. Around him swirls a whirlpool of piety, menace, terror, and passion - a vortex from which no reader can or will escape until the final resolution...." Very faint discoloration to edges of textblock, light rubbing on boa rds, lig ht w rink ling at bottom of spine, three tiny corner dints, tiny dint on top edge of rear board. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, very light rubbing, small light water mark at top inside edge. Very Good/Very Good Price: 15.00 USD
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Jacobs, Eric. (Kingsley Amis.)

Tagore, Amitendranath, Translator.