by Kingsley Amis · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422631859
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«Los viejos demonios» is the novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1990 by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (347 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows a group of Welsh friends facing the passage of time and life's changes amid conversations, grudges, and alcohol. With irony and a touch of satire, Amis portrays friendship, old age, and life in Wales.
21 cm edition. Spanish translation by César Armando Gómez of the English original «The Old Devils».
For readers of literary fiction who appreciate ironic humor and stories about maturity and friendships.
Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986). His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis. Amis was knighted in 1990.
