Ending Up
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  • Published: 29 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141961798
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

Ending Up

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29 Aug 2011
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17 Dec 2020
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29 Jul 2011
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Amis's portrayal of a not-so golden old age, part of a new series of reissues of his work in Penguin Modern Classics

At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But the festive season does not herald goodwill to all at Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Disaster and chaos, it seems, are just around the corner ...

Told with Amis's piercing wit and humanity, Ending Up (1974) is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age.

With a new introduction by Helen Dunmore.
  • Published: 29 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141961798
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128
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About the author

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils, winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, and The Biographer's Moustache, which was to be his last book. He also wrote on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in October 1995.

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