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The Old Devils Product Detail:
- Author : Kingsley Amis
- Publisher : New York Review of Books
- Release : 02 October 2012
- ISBN : 9781590175767
- Page : 320 pages
- Rating : 4.5/5 from 103 voters
The Old Devils Book Summary/Review:
Booker Prize Winner: A pub gathering of elderly married couples devolves into mischief in this “sharp and funny” British comedy about marriage, aging, and friendship (The Washington Post) Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years—when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast”—nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, however, when two old friends unexpectedly return from England: Alun Weaver, now a celebrated man of Welsh letters, and his entrancing wife, Rhiannon. Long-dormant rivalries and romances are rudely awakened, as life at the Bible and Crown, the local pub, is changed irrevocably. Considered by Martin Amis to be Kingsley Amis’s greatest achievement—a book that “stands comparison with any English novel of the [twentieth] century”—The Old Devils confronts the attrition of ageing with rare candor, sympathy, and moral intelligence.
The Old Devils
- Author : Kingsley Amis
- Publisher : New York Review of Books
- Release Date : 2012-10-02
- ISBN : 9781590175767
Booker Prize Winner: A pub gathering of elderly married couples devolves into mischief in this “sharp and funny” British comedy about marriage, aging, and friendship (The Washington Post) Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years—when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast”—nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above
The Old Devils
- Author : Kingsley Amis
- Publisher : Random House
- Release Date : 2004
- ISBN : 9780099461050
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when professional Welshman, Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon, join them.
The Old Devils
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- Publisher : New York Review of Books
- Release Date : 2012-10-02
- ISBN : 9781590175927
Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years—when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast”—nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, however, when two old friends unexpectedly return from England: Alun Weaver, now a celebrated man of
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- Publisher : Routledge
- Release Date : 2019-07-23
- ISBN : 9781317460367
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- Publisher : Random House
- Release Date : 2012-03-31
- ISBN : 9781446419847
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