# The Amis Collection

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- Authors: [Kingsley Amis](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-176-7
- Published: 2022-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

What advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? Where on earth can a man get a decent bite to eat? This entertaining collection is vintage Kingsley Amis, revealing him at his most robust and incisive, cutting a swathe through such subjects as writers and writing, 'Abroad', eating and drinking, music, language and education. He turns a clear and critical eye on Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, Anthony Burgess, Ian Fleming and Philip Larkin, and does not spare their potential readers in 'Sod the Public: A Consumer's Guide' . In typically razor-sharp, wicked and witty prose, Amis tackles the culture and conceits of his era.