by Kingsley Amis · IMPEDIMENTA EDITORIAL S.L · tapa dura · ISBN 9788415979586
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This collection brings together for the first time all of Kingsley Amis' short prose in a single volume. The stories, translated into Spanish by Raquel Vicedo, alternate between genres such as mystery, horror, and satirical reflections on life and love. In them, we discover the best Amis: fine, satirical and biting, extremely intelligent and with an implacable style that pushes the possibilities of language to the limit. An essential work for lovers of English narrative.
Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986). His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis. Amis was knighted in 1990.
