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  • Published: 17 December 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241454190
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $26.99

The Folks That Live On The Hill





Amis's elegant précis on desire and duty, love and loyalty, part of a new series of reissues of his work in Penguin Modern Classics

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Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threatens to emulate Wordsworth, when his son's lesbian lodger is beaten up by her girlfriend. He endures misplaced seductions, swindles and aggressive dogs just to keep the peace at the King's pub in Shepherd's Hill. But when the Adams' Institute of Cultural and Commercial History in America offers him the opportunity to do 'whatever he wanted to do' in a picturesque lakeside town, he faces a choice between freedom or responsibility - and whether to take charge of his own life.

  • Published: 17 December 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241454190
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $26.99

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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Praise for The Folks That Live On The Hill

Like Waugh he is a consummate writer of sentences, a mordant practitioner of perfected English prose ... Amis's gift for outrage is as alert as ever

Independent

Sometimes sharply funny, sometimes bluntly genial, altogether the most successful book he has written for years

Sunday Times
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