by Kingsley Amis · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140278705
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«Lucky Jim» is Kingsley Amis's satirical novel, published by Penguin in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Jim Dixon, a young lecturer at a newly founded English university, tries to keep his job while putting up with eccentric colleagues. A weekend of madrigals, a lecture on traditional England, and Christine, the girlfriend of Professor Welch's son, complicate his life in a comedy of errors with mordant humor.
Originally published in 1954, it won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1955 and established Kingsley Amis as one of the leading British writers of his generation.
For readers of classic fiction and British humor; also a regular choice for book clubs.
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.
