by Kingsley Amis · Dalai Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788860735386
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«Taccuino di un vecchio bevitore» is Kingsley Amis's essay collection, published by Dalai Editore in paperback (283 pages, in Italian).
Essays on alcohol consumption: Kingsley Amis examines the effects of drunkenness, the keys to avoiding intoxication, and the drinker's diet. From his favourite drinks he traces a kind of autobiography and closes the volume with a quiz to measure the reader's knowledge.
Introduction by Christopher Hitchens, translation by Salvatore Giovanni Fichera. Icone collection from Dalai Editore. Work originally published as «Everyday Drinking: The Distilled» in 1984.
Fans of drink culture and humorous essays, and readers wanting to discover the more personal side of Kingsley Amis.
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.
