(The Old Devils) [New] Å Kingsley Amis
- Paperback
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- The Old Devils
- Kingsley Amis
- English
- 25 February 2019
- 9781590175767
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The Old Devils review ✓ 3 Ible and Crown the local pub is changed irrevocably Considered by Martin Amis to be Kingsley Amis’s greatest achievement a book that “stands comparison with any English novel of the twentieth century” The Old Devils confronts the attrition of ageing with rare candor sympathy and moral intelligen Last of the summer wine in Wales Alun Weaver and his wife Rhiannon return to London be around in Wales after decades in England Alun is a tv personality seen by the English as an expert on Wales but by his friends a bit of a blowhard albeit a friendly one Alun is also a serial philanderer The characters in the story are all elderly retired and enjoy getting inebriated every day Malcom and his wife Gwen Sophie and alcoholic Charlie who suffers anxiety attacks Dorothy and Percy and Peter and his nagging wife Muriel The story revolves around their past and the relationships they had Poor overweight Peter love of Rhiannon Malcolm and Charlie s wives affairs with Alun who still pursues the ladies Amis has a wonderful way with descriptive prose of the landscape characters and what I would say a dry wit in this comictragic story All set around drinking yourself senseless and the recuperative powers of welsh livers I would give this story 35 rating as it is amusing but not laugh out loud This is my 20th Man Booker Prize winner book and on the whole they are very enjoyable reads Hell for the Company Brimstone #1 rare candor sympathy and moral intelligen Last of the summer wine in Wales Alun Weaver and his wife Rhiannon A Year Down Yonder return to London be around in Wales after decades in England Alun is a tv personality seen by the English as an expert on Wales but by his friends a bit of a blowhard albeit a friendly one Alun is also a serial philanderer The characters in the story are all elderly Getting Naked retired and enjoy getting inebriated every day Malcom and his wife Gwen Sophie and alcoholic Charlie who suffers anxiety attacks Dorothy and Percy and Peter and his nagging wife Muriel The story Invisible Jim Crow revolves around their past and the The Vault Guide to the Case Interview relationships they had Poor overweight Peter love of Rhiannon Malcolm and Charlie s wives affairs with Alun who still pursues the ladies Amis has a wonderful way with descriptive prose of the landscape characters and what I would say a dry wit in this comictragic story All set around drinking yourself senseless and the The Castle Diaries recuperative powers of welsh livers I would give this story 35 The Song of the Mockingbird rating as it is amusing but not laugh out loud This is my 20th Man Booker Prize winner book and on the whole they are very enjoyable Sir Halmanac and the Crimson Star reads
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The Old Devils review ✓ 3 Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast” nattering complaining remi Does anyone really want to read a book about a lot of boring old farts getting drunk and shagging each others wives No wonder people were saying the British novel was dead at the time when this won the Booker prize
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The Old Devils review ✓ 3 Niscing and above all drinking This or less orderly social world is thrown off kilter however when two old friends unexpectedly return from England Alun Weaver now a celebrated man of Welsh letters and his entrancing wife Rhiannon Long dormant rivalries and romances are rudely awakened as life at the B Readers of John Updike s Couples will find the setup of this novel glancingly familiar the circle of ingrown septic turning friendships among well off married couples in a small town by the sea the arrival of the new couple that puts the cat among the pigeons But where Updike s novel much the superior of the two is all about sex and love Amis s themes are booze and adultery His couples unlike Updike s are all well on the wrong side of middle age his setting unlike Updike s picturesue New England town of Tarbox is South Wales in the early Thatcher era all closed down pitheads and fake Welshness seen through a haze of alcohol and thin freezing rainStill lovers of that grumpy unsentimentality in which the British tend to specialize as they grow older and none specialized successfully than Kingsley Amis will find much to enjoy here as I did For lovers of literary style Amis s imaginative aptness of phrase cannot help but delight What does not appeal is the almost poisonous mysogyny that underpins much of the humour and while the insight that growing old brings no consolation of wisdom only infirmity futility and resentment against the world at large makes for some fine black humour at times the laugh often ends up sounding rather hollow