by Kingsley Amis · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140240795
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories» is Kingsley Amis's collection of short stories, published by Penguin in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Kingsley Amis demonstrates his craft as a short-story writer in varied tales: a father troubled by his daughter's relationship with the poet Browning, a literary agent taken hostage, and a vicar who finds an unknown twin. Humour, irony and an unsettling tone run through these stories.
The work originally appeared in 1991; this Penguin edition is from 1994. It includes, among others, 'Boris and the Colonel', 'A Twitch on the Thread' and 'Captain Nolan's Chance'.
In tone and variety, it suits readers of short fiction and contemporary British fiction.
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.
