The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship Between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin.
de BRADFORD, RICHARD:
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- First
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- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 1849543755
- ISBN 13
- 9781849543750
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PLYMOUTH., Devon, United Kingdom
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, subject's portrait b/w photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with orange+white lettering to front and spine/backstrip,critics' reviews to rear; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xpp+2- 373pp [paginated] includes an introduction and acknowledgements,11 chapters, 8pp subject's contemporary b/w auto+biographical photographs in 1 block,between pp182/3,a select bibliography and an index,plus [unpaginated] title page,a dedication,and a contents list/table.
Kingsley Amis was a mimic,jester,father,husband,atheist,pseudo-socialist and clubland Tory boozer with a limitless taste for adultery; Philip Larkin a glum misanthrope who lived in self-imposed solitude.And yet,after meeting at St John's,Oxford in 1941,this unlikely pair struck up a friendship to endure for more than forty years,despite a period of acrimony in the 1960s.From their early days of undergraduate ambitions and enthusiasms through to the bitterness of middle-age,Richard Bradford charts the progress of a remarkable friendship,and shows how crucial it was to the making of these two literary giants. Without Larkin's inspiration and input,Amis would never have written his award-winning debut,'Lucky Jim'; if not for Amis's overnight success,Larkin would never have abandoned his hopes of becoming a novelist and turned instead to verse.Larkin's ensuing resentment would simmer beneath the surface of their relationship for years to come.Drawing on an enormous archive of letters,manuscripts and interviews, 'The Odd Couple' not only offers a rare glimpse into the private correspondence of two controversial and eccentric men,it also illuminates some of the finest novels and poems of the twentieth century. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
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- The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship Between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin.
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- BRADFORD, RICHARD:
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- illus with subject's contemporary b/w auto+biographical photographs.
- Estado del libro
- Usado - FINE.
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- FINE.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1849543755
- ISBN 13
- 9781849543750
- Editorial
- LONDON.THE ROBSON PRESS,2012.
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- 2012
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