Dear Illusion

Name: Dear Illusion
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Collected Stories

By: Kingsley Amis, Rachel Cusk (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 4 August 2015

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544 Pages

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With Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis established himself as the bad boy of twentieth-century British letters. Later he became famous as another kind of bad boy, an inveterate boozer, a red-faced scourge of political correctness. He was consistent throughout in being a committed enemy of any form of "right thinking," which helped to make him one of the most consistently unconventional and exploratory writers of his day, a master of classical English prose who was unafraid to apply himself to literary genres all too often dismissed as "low." Science fiction, the spy story, the ghost story were all grist for Amis's mill, and nowhere is the experimental spirit in which he worked, his will to test both reality and the reader's imagination, more apparent than in his short stories. These "woodchips from [his] workshop"-as he called them-are anything but throwaway work. They are instead the essence of Amis, a brew that is as tonic as it is intoxicating.

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"Kingsley Amis, another comic novelist who was at bottom deadly serious." --Terry Teachout "[These stories] are written by a man with plenty of interests in life, a large capacity for changing his mind and containing contrasting, even conflicting opinions within himself. The reader genuinely never knows what is coming next." --Philip Hensher, The Spectator

"His best stories are uncommonly beautifully written, well observed and tartly witty." --Alan Taylor, The Herald Scotland

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