The Old Devils (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	The New York Review Of Books, Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	October 2012
Authors:	Kingsley Amis
Introduction by:	John Banville
Dimensions:	203 x 128 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-59017-576-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	1-59017-576-X
Barcode:	9781590175767

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