| Girl, 20 Contributor(s): Amis, Kingsley (Author), Jacobson, Howard (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590176634 ISBN-13: 9781590176634 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2013015573 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 8" (0.52 lbs) 253 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kingsley Amis, along with being the funniest English writer of his generation was a great chronicler of the fads and absurdities of his age, and Girl, 20 is a delightfully incisive dissection of the flower-power phase of the 1960s. Amis's antihero, Sir Roy Vandervane, a conductor and composer who bears more than a passing resemblance to Leonard Bernstein, is a pillar of the establishment whohas fallen hard for protest, bellbottoms, and the electric guitar. And since vain Sir Vandervane is a great success, he is also free to pursue his greatest failing: a taste for younger and younger women. Highborn hippie Sylvia (not, in fact, twenty) is his latest infatuation and a threat to his whole family, from his drama-queen wife, Kitty, to Penny, his long-suffering daughter. All this is recounted by Douglas Yandell, a music critic with his own love problems, who finds that he too has a part in this story of botched artistry, bumbling celebrity, and scheming family, in a time that for all its high-minded talk is as low and dishonest as any other. |