'K. Amis' in OBA Collectie

Dit boek is een parodie op de klassieke engelse who-dunnit, het Agatha-Christie-Dorothy-Sayers-etc.-genre. Onbegrijpelijke plot, steriele jaren 30 omgeving, veel thee, etc. Amis heeft zich ten doel gesteld sex in dit boek aan te brengen: hete scenes tu...

Roger Micheldene, the corpulent British publisher whose adventures on a brief business trip to America are chronicled in this novel is totally selfish. His mind and often his speech are crammed with offensive observations about Jews, Negroes, women, hom...

About how we spend our retirement years, often called "golden," though in Kingsley Amis' hands anything but. At Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage a clutch of oldsters are brought together. Two of the caracters in the book are Bernard Bastable and Derrick Shorte...

We have the whole cast of british here, from the irreverent homosexual to the chaplain who goes on sexual escapades. The novel is based in the British Army in the 60s, and we get a pretty intriguing plot to do with a foreign enemy and mysterious weapon...