{"product_id":"the-life-of-kingsley-amis-by-zachary-leader","title":"The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing not only on interviews with a range of Amis’s friends, relatives, fellow writers, students and colleagues, many of them never before consulted, but also on almost a thousand previously unpublished letters, Leader’s biography will for the first time give a full picture of Amis’s childhood, school-days, life as a teacher, critic, polemicist, professional author, husband, father and lover. He explores Amis’s fears and phobias, and the role that drink played in his life. And of course he pays due attention to Amis’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the editor of Kingsley Amis’s Letters (hailed in the Sunday Telegraph as “one of the last major monuments to the epistolary art”), Leader is more than qualified to be his authorized biographer. His book will surprise, entertain and illuminate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42448749068362,"sku":"5379x","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/5379x.jpg?v=1764931737","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/the-life-of-kingsley-amis-by-zachary-leader","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}