I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities.

A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand.

Inspired by Amis's friend, the poet Philip Larkin, Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character, adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious world, in a witty campus novel that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life. With an introduction by David Lodge

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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272 pages
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date:25/05/2000
Category:
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN:9780141182599

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