Lucky Jim
- ISBN-10
- 0241956846
- ISBN-13
- 9780241956847
- Series
- Lucky Jim
- Category
- College teachers
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Viking
- Author
- Kingsley Amis
Description
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.' Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend, Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England', a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never simple . . . A hilarious satire on the British educational establishment, Lucky Jim is a book for anyone who has been a student, anyone who has been to university and anyone who has come to hate a job they have to keep. 'It has always made me laugh out loud . . . a flawless comic novel.' Helen Dunmore, The Times 'A seminal campus novel.' David Lodge
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