The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis

The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER

A pub gathering of elderly married couples devolves into booze-inflected reminiscing--and complaining--in this "sharp and funny" English comedy about marriage, aging, and friendship (The Washington Post).

Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis's The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years--when "all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast"--nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, however, when two old friends unexpectedly return from England: Alun Weaver, now a celebrated man of Welsh letters, and his entrancing wife, Rhiannon. Long-dormant rivalries and romances are rudely awakened, as life at the Bible and Crown, the local pub, is changed irrevocably.

Considered by Martin Amis to be Kingsley Amis's greatest achievement--a book that "stands comparison with any English novel of the [twentieth] century"--The Old Devils confronts the attrition of ageing with rare candor, sympathy, and moral intelligence.

Kingsley Amis is a well-known English author who is known for his caustic and piercing wit. He is a well-known novelist, poet, literary critic, and lecturer who has written twenty novels, short stories, three poetry collections, as well as radio and television scripts. He has received numerous accolades for his work, including the Booker Prize and the Sommerset Maugham Award.

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ISBN 13	9781590175767
ISBN 10	159017576X
Title	The Old Devils
Author	Kingsley Amis
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2012-10-02
Number of pages	320
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