The folks that live on the hill - Hardcover

Kingsley Amis

3.13

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9780091741372: The folks that live on the hill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091741378 ISBN 13: 9780091741372

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1990

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First edition. The ties of duty, love and loyalty are explored in this delightful comic novel dealing with the supposed retirement of one Harry Caldecote, a former librarian. Feeling responsible for just about everybody he knows, Harry finds himself with little time or privacy for his own adventures. viii , 246 pages. quarter cloth with paper boards, dust jacket. 8vo..

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Another example of the new, mellower Amis, who wrote the bestselling (in Britain) The Old Devils , this is a pleasant, rambling, sometimes touching tale of Harry Caldecote, a retired library executive, and the assorted people in his life. These include Fiona, a self-destructive alcoholic related to one of his former wives; Bunty, the daughter of another, who is in an unhappy lesbian relationship; his ineffectual brother Freddie, married to a termagant; Clare, his capable but unambitious sister; and Piers, his son, a witty, elusive cadger. In his bemused way Harry worries about all of them, does his best for them and only very occasionally succeeds in bettering their lot. The character sketches are sharp, Amis's habitual misogyny is very muted, and there are even a couple of sympathetic and sophisticated Asian shopkeepers. A much kinder book than most of his work, then, but with the same sense of muddle and pitifully limited horizons we have come to associate with the Amis world. And the oddities of his style increasingly are coming to seem as carefully stylized, and classic in their way, as those of P. G. Wodehouse.
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