Lucky Jim
- ISBN-10
- 0141046716
- ISBN-13
- 9780141046716
- Series
- Lucky Jim
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-04
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Kingsley Amis
Description
Jim Dixon is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer. His days are only improved by pulling faces behind the backs of his superiors as he tries desperately to survive provincial bourgeois society, an unbearable 'girlfriend' and petty humiliation at the hands of Professor Welch.
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