# Lucky Jim

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- Book: [Lucky Jim](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis/lucky-jim) ([Lucky Jim.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis/lucky-jim.md))
- Authors: [Kingsley Amis](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-684-7
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2012-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.' Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend, Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England', a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never simple . . .