by Kingsley Amis · Flamingo · tapa dura · ISBN 9780002253307
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«The Biographer's Moustache» is Kingsley Amis's literary fiction novel, published by Flamingo in hardback (282 pages, in English).
Gordon Scott-Thompson, an unsuccessful writer, is commissioned to write the biography of veteran novelist Jimmie Fane, a snob who detests moustaches and modern language. Scott-Thompson, deeply attached to his own moustache, must contend with him and with Fane's wife, Joanna, in a satirical comedy about the literary world and social differences.
First edition published by Flamingo in 1995; the work falls within contemporary literary fiction.
For readers of British satire and social fiction with humour.
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.
