The Economist (US), April 21st, 2007
Grumpy old man "WHAT I want", wrote Kingsley Amis in 1954, a few weeks before his debut novel "Lucky Jim" made him famous, "is a chance to decide, from personal experience, that a life of cocktail parties, cars, weekending at rich houses, wine, night-clubs and jazz won't bring happiness. I want to prove that money isn't everything, to learn that pleasure cloys." According to Zachary Leader's thumping great breeze-block of a biography (published in Britain last November but only this month in America), Amis went on to investigate these matters pretty thoroughly. As the accounts of his drinkin...
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